POLICEMEN CONTINUE TAKING PARTICIPANTS OF "POLITICAL WALK" TO POLICE STATIONS

Noyan Tapan
March 27, 2008

YEREVAN, MARCH 27, NOYAN TAPAN. From 6 p.m. to 7:25 p.m. of March
27, without providing any explanation or reasons, policemen took 19
citizens, including reporter of "Hetq" electronic newspaper Tigran
Paskevichian, from North Avenue to police stations. Other journalists
told policemen that the indicated person was a reporter but this
circumstance did not prevent policemen from forcing T. Paskevichian
to get into a car and driving him away. Policemen were also going to
take member of "Karabakh" committee Samson Ghazarian but they went
away after exchanging a few words with him.

To recap, supporters of the first Armenian president Levon
Ter-Petrosian have declared that they will take "political walks"
along North Avenue every evening. At 8 p.m. a lot of policemen and
employees of the National Security Service (NAS) gathered in the
avenue, while one of them was filming the walking people with a video
camera. The number of the "walk" participants was gradually increasing.