PROGRESSIVE PARTY OF ARMENIA TO DEMAND COMPENSATION OF $1 MLN. FROM “AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL”

Panorama.am
15:26 31/05/2010

Law

Progressive Party of Armenia intends to file a suit against “Amnesty
International” organization, the perty’s press service reported.

“In a so-called report of this organization of 2001, irresponsible
authors of the “report” wrote such a blatant lie that one may draw just
two conclusions therefore: either they are illiterate and unfair and
should apologize for their mistake, or they deliberately introduced
an unfancied falsehood in a so-called “report” pursuing some aims,
for what they must also apologize.

The matter concerns an incident happened in 2008, when drunken
Mika Danielyan and his friends chased and then attacked Chairman of
Progressive Party of Armenia Tigran Urikhanyan who had to resort to
self-protection and fired blank in the air. M. Danielyan gave false
testimonies, maligned T. Urikhanyan and, having preliminary scratched
his skin, said (being unknown of the expert examination results saying
it was a blank shot) he had allegedly received fragment wounds.

M. Dalnielyan, who sets himself up as a human right activist and
who committed violence with respect to T. Urikhanyan, being engaged
in protection of human rights through his vital activities, was
not convicted and is out of prison today, while the aforementioned
organization writes a sheer lie instead of truth, just like in all
other articles of the so-called “report” regarding Armenia.

Progressive Party of Armenia will demand to bring Amnesty
International, which serves someone’s political interests, to justice,
as well as will demand compensation in moral damages at the rate of
$1.000.000,” the party’s statement reads.

From: A. Papazian