PROTESTERS BANNED TO NEAR GOVERNMENT BUILDING

4/gold-market
04:01 pm | February 24, 2010

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It is already a week the employees of "Vosku Ashkharh" (Gold World)
market are on strike protesting against the recent package of tax
"reforms".

Former employee of the market Rafael Antonyan whose booth was
dismantled yesterday was detained today morning and released in a
little while.

Police inquired from Mr. Antonyan how long the protest action of the
market employees would continue and why his booth had been taken down.

To know the answer to the second question Rafael Antonyan yesterday
attempted to see the director of the gold market belonging to Vagharsh
and Sons Ltd but all his efforts failed.

"If the director accuses me of organizing the protest and raising
5000 employees, let him start arresting the protesters one by one,"
Rafael Antonyan told A1+.

"Why do they take stock of gold? I may give the jewelry to a relative
or acquaintance or turn it into an ingot," said jeweler Narine.

Today the police preventing the protesters from nearing the government
building.

Anyway, the protesters are determined to continue the action and make
their voice audible. They were called to by the director today and
ordered to open their booths which were promised to be dismantled if
the employees disobeyed.