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Police call on protesters to leave Liberty Square
11:01 - 02.10.11
Armenia's police have called on protestors to leave the Liberty
Square, saying their rally is not sanctioned by the Yerevan
Municipality.
In a statement issued late on Saturday, the police also warned that it
would disperse demonstrators if they breach public order and others'
constitutional rights.
`The police are informing that this current rally is illegal and its
participants will be held accountable before the law,' read the police
statement.
It comes after the supporters of the opposition Armenian National
Congress, or HAK, set up tents on Liberty Square and started a
one-week of round-the-clock rallies.
The oppositionists have already spent two day in tents near the Opera
House in an attempt to make the authorities satisfy their demands.
Further, the police said given the rally is peaceful they do not take
immediate measures to disperse it.
But once the demonstrators violate the public order and other
citizens' constitutional rights disproportionately, the police will
have to disperse the rally, the statement added.
The police also said that the demonstrators are already violating
public order by having set up tents on Liberty Square.
`Therefore, the police are calling on participants of the rally to
dismantle the tents,' read the statement.
The HAK supporters set up tents and spent days on Liberty Square also
in 2008, when they claimed that the vote had been stolen. The unrest
then left at least ten people dead and several wounded.
Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian
11:01 - 02.10.11
Armenia's police have called on protestors to leave the Liberty
Square, saying their rally is not sanctioned by the Yerevan
Municipality.
In a statement issued late on Saturday, the police also warned that it
would disperse demonstrators if they breach public order and others'
constitutional rights.
`The police are informing that this current rally is illegal and its
participants will be held accountable before the law,' read the police
statement.
It comes after the supporters of the opposition Armenian National
Congress, or HAK, set up tents on Liberty Square and started a
one-week of round-the-clock rallies.
The oppositionists have already spent two day in tents near the Opera
House in an attempt to make the authorities satisfy their demands.
Further, the police said given the rally is peaceful they do not take
immediate measures to disperse it.
But once the demonstrators violate the public order and other
citizens' constitutional rights disproportionately, the police will
have to disperse the rally, the statement added.
The police also said that the demonstrators are already violating
public order by having set up tents on Liberty Square.
`Therefore, the police are calling on participants of the rally to
dismantle the tents,' read the statement.
The HAK supporters set up tents and spent days on Liberty Square also
in 2008, when they claimed that the vote had been stolen. The unrest
then left at least ten people dead and several wounded.
Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian