WORKING GROUPS ON LEARNING SEPARATE ASPECTS OF THE SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY AFTER 1 MARCH HAVE BEEN CREATED UNDER ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN OFFICE

arminfo
2008-03-12 13:19:00

ArmInfo. Working groups on learning of separate aspects of the
situation in the country after 1 March have been created under Armenian
Ombudsman Office.

As Armenian Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan said at today’s
press-conference, the first group is learning freedom of speech
problems, the second one is holding monitoring of the arrested and
detained people because of taking part in the mass disorders on 1
March; the third one is visiting the injured people in hospitals. He
also added that they are going to inform mass media about the results
of these groups present activity.

He also said that he was going to meet 20 arrested people suspected
for their complicity in the 1 March events. But 5 of them declined
referring on the necessity of preliminary consultation with a
lawyer. One of the rest 15 people said he had been beaten up and no
medical aid had been shown to him; 2 persons said they had started
4-day hunger strike which has been already finished.