ARMENIAN POLICE ARREST SUPPORTERS OF LEVON TER-PETROSYAN
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 24 2007
Armenian law-enforcement bodies arrested the oppositionists calling
people to rally.
APA reports that editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper
Nikol Pashinyan, Democratic Fatherland party leader Petros Makeyan,
Conservative Party leader Mikael Hayrapetyan, editor-in-chief of
Fourth Power opposition newspaper Shoher Matevosyan and some others
are among the detainees.
They delivered leaflets calling people to participate in rallies to
support Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
There was a confrontation between the oppositionists and the police.
20 were injured as a result of it. The detainees were released after
they gave a written undertaking not to leave the country.
Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters will hold a sanctioned rally in Yerevan
on October 26.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Stepan Demirchiyan and Aram Sarkisian are expected
to deliver speech. The ruling party organized a free concert with
participation of Armenian stars in Yerevan Republic stadium on the
same day.