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Armenian opposition says key member has been kidnapped
YEREVAN. Feb 24 (Interfax) - Aram Karapetian, the leader of Armenia's
New Times opposition party, was reportedly abducted in Yerevan on
Sunday, the campaign of Levon Ter-Petrosian, the losing candidate for
the Armenian presidency, announced.
According to eyewitnesses, several masked people forced Karapetian and
his entourage into cars with license plates of the Armenian National
Security Service on Erebuni Street in Yerevan at about 3.30 local time
and drove away in an unknown direction, the press secretary of
Petrosian's campaign Arman Musinian told Interfax on Sunday. The
kidnappers also beat up Karapetian's bodyguards with clubs, he added.
The New Times party endorsed Ter-Petrosian in the Armenian presidential
election of February 19. Karapetian has also been head many times
making appeals to the public to overthrow the regime at opposition
rallies. ar md
YEREVAN. Feb 24 (Interfax) - Aram Karapetian, the leader of Armenia's
New Times opposition party, was reportedly abducted in Yerevan on
Sunday, the campaign of Levon Ter-Petrosian, the losing candidate for
the Armenian presidency, announced.
According to eyewitnesses, several masked people forced Karapetian and
his entourage into cars with license plates of the Armenian National
Security Service on Erebuni Street in Yerevan at about 3.30 local time
and drove away in an unknown direction, the press secretary of
Petrosian's campaign Arman Musinian told Interfax on Sunday. The
kidnappers also beat up Karapetian's bodyguards with clubs, he added.
The New Times party endorsed Ter-Petrosian in the Armenian presidential
election of February 19. Karapetian has also been head many times
making appeals to the public to overthrow the regime at opposition
rallies. ar md