FRENCH ARMENIANS ORGANIZE RALLY IN FRONT OF THE GEORGIAN EMBASSY TO PROTECT VAHAGN CHAKHALIAN
Noyan Tapan – Armenians Today
April 28, 2009
Paris
Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAOF)
will again organize a protest rally on April 28 in front of the
Georgian Embassy in France in protest against doing violence to Vahagn
Chakhalian in the Georgian prison.
CCAOF demands from the Georgian authorities "immediately release
Vahagn Chakhalian, to respect his personal inviolability", and to
respect the rights of the Armenian minority. In this connection
CCAOF disseminated a statement, saying particularly, that Georgian
authorities after sentencing to 10-year imprisonment the leader of
the "United Javakhk" democratic alliance on charges of the trumped-up
case and forged documents, now intend to reply by physical violence
to the wave raised against that unfair verdict.
"Such processes are unacceptable in any country declared supremacy
of law, these developments are part of continuous victimization of
Armenians of Javakhk and reflect a new display of a hostile attitude of
Georgian central authorities towards the Armenian community of Georgia.
In Javakhk this is reflected in attempts of changing the demographic
situation, in systematic falsifications of local elections outcomes,
in neglecting democratic demands of the population and in applying
oppression methods instead of dialog", says the statement of CCAOF.
This atrocious act committed on April 16 by servants of Tbilisi’s
prison number 8 against Chakhalian was also condemned by his attorneys
who called upon relevant human rights international organizations to
respond to this act of violence.
To remind, in protection of Vahagn Chakhalian a protest rally was
organized in front of the Georgian Embassy in Paris on April 14.