WIVES OF ARRESTED POLITICIANS HAND REGULAR LETTER-DEMAND TO PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE
Noyan Tapan
April 25, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 25, NOYAN TAPAN. A regular action of protest of wives
and supporters of arrested oppositionists, freedom-fighters, and
activists took place on April 25 in front of the building of the RA
Prosecutor General’s Office. The demonstrants handed a letter-demand
to the Prosecutor’s Office with hundreds of signatures demanding
releasing their relatives. Zhanna Kotikian, the head of citizens’
reception department, said in her interview to the women that the
letter handed last time did not contain any address or passport data,
which would give the Prosecutor’s Office a possibility to answer
the letter. In response the women stated that they are not going to
provide their data to representatives of Prosecutor’s Office, as they
are convinced that these data will be used against them. "They will
come and arrest us, as well," they said.
Melisa Brown, the wife of Alexander Arzumanian, the head of Levon
Ter-Petrosian’s central headquarters, former Foreign Minister, said
in her interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent that though her husband
has been in prison for almost two months, he is not interrogated and
in general the investigation does not go ahead. She affirmed that
the body carrying out examination has no legal basis or proof to
isolate her husband and others from society. "It is just beneficial
for Robert Kocharian and Serge Sargsian if my husband and his friends
serve a term of imprisonment," M. Brown said.
It should be mentioned that comparatively fewer people took part in
this action. The action participants explained this by the circumstance
that many of their friends had left for the village of Hakhtanak,
the native village of Smbat Ayvazian, a member of the Board of the
Hanrapetutiun (Republic) party, who has been arrested, to take part
in the action of protest held in the same hour.