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ACTIVISTS DEMAND THE RELEASE OF VAHAGN CHAKHALYAN
Tert.am
28.11.11
A group of Armenian activists held a march on Monday to the Georgian
embassy in Yerevan and handed a letter addressed to Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili.
In the letter the activists demanded the Georgian president to release
Vahagn Chakhalyan - a Samtskhe-Javakheti Armenian activist who has
been jailed for three years now.
The march that started from the statue of Alexander Tamanyan in central
Yerevan was also of symbolic significance as it was organized on the
birthday of Vahagn Chakhalyan.
"We demand the Georgian president to release our compatriot," said
one of the activists who preferred to remain anonymous.
"And the march is important in the sense that mainly youth are
taking part in it which shows that they are not indifferent to their
compatriots," the respondent added.
The group of activists, approximately 50 people, arrived at the
embassy and demanded that one of the embassy personnel come out and
respond to their questions.
None of them did, however, show up, and the marchers could only hand
the letter addressed to Mikheil Saakashvili, calling on him to ensure
fair trial for Vahagn Chakhalyan and set him free.
Vahagn Chakhalyan has been vocal in his criticism of Georgian
authorities over the problems of the predominantly ethnic
Armenian-populated Georgian region of Samtskhe-Javakheti.
"In the letter, we also mentioned all those violations of law that
our compatriot was subjected to," said the activist.
"Particularly, he was regularly beaten up, deprived of minimum
sanitation rights; was banned from seeing his relatives. We are
going to send a letter also to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan,"
the activist added.
Tert.am
28.11.11
A group of Armenian activists held a march on Monday to the Georgian
embassy in Yerevan and handed a letter addressed to Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili.
In the letter the activists demanded the Georgian president to release
Vahagn Chakhalyan - a Samtskhe-Javakheti Armenian activist who has
been jailed for three years now.
The march that started from the statue of Alexander Tamanyan in central
Yerevan was also of symbolic significance as it was organized on the
birthday of Vahagn Chakhalyan.
"We demand the Georgian president to release our compatriot," said
one of the activists who preferred to remain anonymous.
"And the march is important in the sense that mainly youth are
taking part in it which shows that they are not indifferent to their
compatriots," the respondent added.
The group of activists, approximately 50 people, arrived at the
embassy and demanded that one of the embassy personnel come out and
respond to their questions.
None of them did, however, show up, and the marchers could only hand
the letter addressed to Mikheil Saakashvili, calling on him to ensure
fair trial for Vahagn Chakhalyan and set him free.
Vahagn Chakhalyan has been vocal in his criticism of Georgian
authorities over the problems of the predominantly ethnic
Armenian-populated Georgian region of Samtskhe-Javakheti.
"In the letter, we also mentioned all those violations of law that
our compatriot was subjected to," said the activist.
"Particularly, he was regularly beaten up, deprived of minimum
sanitation rights; was banned from seeing his relatives. We are
going to send a letter also to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan,"
the activist added.