What is allowed to read in Javakhk?
08:17 pm | March 25, 2010 | Social
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With a sign reading "Armenian spirit will not break down" and screams
of "Javakhk", members of the New Conservatives National Movement
gathered in front of the UN Office in Yerevan to protest in defense of
Javakhk Armenians.
According to leader of the New Conservatives National Movement Edward
Apramyan, not only is reading and receiving information in the mother
language prohibited in Javakhk, but citizens of Javakhk are forced to
stay standing on the border for 8 hours to cross the Armenian-Georgian
border. Apramyan says that Armenian literature is prohibited in
Javakhk.
The protesters handed a letter to the UN Office in Yerevan with the
request to "examine the border issues, defend their human rights,
protect them from Georgian border guards and special service workers
and support the restoration of justice."
Two weeks ago, the Georgian Ambassador to Armenia announced that
literature was truly prohibited, but members of the movement have
already sent their second letter to the ambassador to provide them
with a list of which books can be taken to Javakhk.
"There is still no response, but border guards say that it is the
country’s decision to prohibit it," said the leader of the movement.