YOUNG ACTIVISTS BEATEN WHILE CAMPAIGNING FOR PASHINYAN

Tert.am
12:58 * 28.12.09

"Hima" [Arm. – "Now"] non-governmental organization has issued a
press release saying that yesterday at about 6 p.m. in the vicinity
of Vardanants 50/A building some 30 young men attacked a 10-12-member
group of the Armenian National Congress young-wing activists who
were distributing Nicole Pashinyan’s election campaign booklets. The
report says they insisted that the "Hima" activists stop the election
campaign but after being refused they attacked and beat them with
metal pipes and slingshots.

Two "Hima" activists, Vahagn Gevorgyan and Sergey Gasparyan, were at
first taken to Hospital No.1 and then to Grigor Lousavorich Clinic
in Nor Norq.