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    WAITING FOR THE POLICE EVERY NIGHT

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    07:59 pm | April 07, 2009

    Society

    Resident of the Nerkin Sasnashen village of the Talin region Vera
    Safaryan's family has been living in fright for a year now. They wait
    for police officers every moment.

    Vera's son Sevak Stepanyan, 25, is part of the opposition and is
    under persecution for a year.

    Police officers at the Talin police division say that they have seen
    Sevak in one of the scenes of the events of March 1, 2008. The scene
    shows how Sevan resisted police officers during a beating near the
    Yerevan city council building.

    That served as a basis for law-enforcement bodies to come to the
    Stepanyan household and threaten the family. But the Stepanyans and
    their relatives couldn't tolerate what happened on March 26 at around
    2 a.m.

    Vera Safaryan's older sister Annman told us that the law-enforcement
    bodies came without notice and searched for Sevak around the entire
    house, including cabinets and under beds.

    "The family was in stress. They checked the rooms where the brides
    were sleeping and the three-year old child was surprised and scared
    after the brutal treatment," said Mrs. Annman.

    According to her, law-enforcement bodies had disputed with Vera's
    other son Armen Stepanyan, 27. They cursed him, beat him and tried
    to throw him in the car. They pushed Vera Safaryan, threw her on the
    floor, damaged her arm and left her unconscious. As Mrs. Annman said,
    this was headed by Head of the Talin police division Gevorg Poghosyan
    and his assistant David Hovhannisyan.

    According to member of the ANC and resident of Talin Hayk Atanesyan,
    the behavior of the law-enforcement bodies is more of a threat because
    the Stepanyans support the ANC and come to all the rallies. "They
    are not after Sevak; they simply want to teach others a lesson,"
    said Hayk Atanesyan.

    The ANC is getting ready to file an official notice to the
    RA Prosecutor General, the RA Ombudsman and a number of other
    international organizations in Armenia to conduct an investigation.
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