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    Beaten journalist refused to give police testimony
    31.05.2009 15:18 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the statement released by Armenian
    National Congress (ANC), Parliament MP Levon Sargsyan has today broken
    into polling station 9/1 and ordered his bodyguards to remove from
    there journalists Gohar Veziryan (`Tchorrord Ishkhanutyun'), Tatev
    Mesropyan (`Hayq') and Marine Kharatyan (`Zhamanak Yerevan'). `The
    MP's bodyguards beat media representatives and seizing their
    dictaphones and mobile phones' ANC activists say in the statement. ANC
    also reports that journalists intend to report the incident to the
    police.
    According to available information, Gohar Vardanyan, who was called to
    RA Police to give testimony, refused to answer law enforcers'
    questions. `I consulted with my lawyer who informed me of my
    constitutional right of not reporting the incident to the police. I
    followed his advice and refused to answer policemen's questions,' she
    said.
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