OPPOSITION RALLY DUE ON SEPTEMBER 15

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[08:13 pm] 10 September, 2008

Since the tragic events of March 1 and imposition of a state of
emergency the acting regime has roughly violated human rights and
rejected over 70 notifications for opposition’s rallies. But even in
the given conditions we did not give up. Since March 21 the Armenian
National Congress has continued its struggle in Northern Avenue for
170 days holding about ten protest actions, marches and demonstrations.

"Finally, our valiant efforts were crowned with victory. The
authorities had long rejected the opposition’s notifications of
rallies. Yesterday they had to sanction our rally of September
15. Nevertheless, we were ready to ignore the illegally-imposed ban
and exercise our constitutional right to rallies.

On the other hand, we cannot help tasting the fruit of our struggle
-pleasure of an authorized rally – with the participation of thousands
of our regional supporters whose right to move was confined on those
days," runs the statement of the Armenian National Congress States.