POLICE ATTACKED MARCH
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11:42:37 – 20/02/2010
Yesterday February 19 the police hindered the march held by the young
activists of the Armenian National Congress, causing a scuffle.
Vladimir Karapetyan, head of public relations of the Armenian National
Congress, told Lragir.am as the march reached the building of the
Central Electoral Commission, the leader of the Conservative Party
Michael Hairapetyan appealed to the participants to finish the march.
Around the corner of the CEC, on Koryun Street, the red berets
attacked the participants of the march. As a result, six activists,
including the son of the editor of the Haykakan Zhamanak Haik
Gevorgyan, were taken to the police station, and Sargis Ghazaryan was
taken to hospital.
Following this incident, the Armenian National Congress made a
statement condemning the unlawful action of the police, which
assaulted the activists instead of guaranteeing their security.
`Nevertheless, the march of protest, overcoming obstacles and
continuous violence, successfully got to the finish of their march.
Waiting at the finish of the march, the police detained six, Tigran
Arakelyan, Sargis Gevorgyan, Sergey Gasparyan, Varag Nahapetyan,
Vahagn Gevorgyan and Areg Gevorgyan.
Under the heavy burden of foreign political failures, alarmed by the
rising wave of social rebel, the regime is losing self-control and
takes inadequate steps which indicate agony. It tries to create an
atmosphere of intimidation through abject actions to possibly reduce
the number of participants of the national rally to be held on March
1. However, experience shows that it produces the opposite effect.’