MEMBER OF SASUN MIKAYELIAN’S SUPPORT GROUP BROUGHT TO POLICE FROM NORTHERN
AVENUE
NOYAN TAPAN
Ju ly 7
At about 15:00, July 7, a brawl started between two girls who appeared
in Northern Avenue and the participants of the action of protest,
radical opposition supporters, who are on sit-down strike for the third
day in Northern Avenue. As a result, policemen in civil clothes brought
to the police station an oppositionist, a resident of the village
of Vanatur, who had come to Northern Avenue as a member of arrested
Sasun Mikayelian’s support group. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was
informed by the members of the Special Regiment youth organization,
the girls very obviously instigators.
It should be mentioned that nearly sixty people, the majority of
which were women, spent the July 7 night in Northern Avenue. In the
previous nights their number reached 90. They organized the action
without tents, in the open air and spend the nights near the walls
of Avenue’s elite buildings, on mattresses spread on the ground.
It should be mentioned that the demands of the sit-down strike
announced until August 1 are to release those arrested on the March
1 case, to stop prosecutions and pressures to opposition supporters,
to quickly call for liability those really guilty of the March 1
events, in the person of former President Robert Kocharian. Besides,
the opposition demands dismissing until August 1 Deputy Prime Minister
Armen Gevorgian, Head of President’s Administration Hovik Abrahamian,
Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepian, Head of the National Security
Service Gorik Hakobian, and Chairman of Council of the Public TV and
Radio Company Alexan Haroutiunian.