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POLICE DRAGGED ME ON THE GROUND, CALLED ME INSANE, SAYS OPPOSITION ACTIVIST
epress.am
09.22.2011
Armenian National Congress (HAK) activist Vardges Gaspari was staging
a protest during the military parade marking 20 years of Armenian
independence yesterday when he was forcibly removed from Yerevan's
Republic Square.
The opposition activist recounted his story to Epress.am today.
"During the military parade, I held a poster on which it was written
that ironic [or ridiculous] is a parade for an army in which more
people die from bullets fired by our own soldiers than those fired by
the enemy. I was standing on my own outside the government building,
when suddenly someone in plainclothes came, attacked [me] and stole
my poster. At that time, I lay on the ground. Red berets [Armenia's
Police Patrol Service] led by Valeriy Osipyan appeared and dragged me
to the Hanrapetutyun [Republic Square] metro station and they weren't
letting me go forward from there. Osipyan was saying, 'He's mentally
ill.' Regarding this matter, I have prepared a statement [to report]
a crime, as well as a separate statement for that expression of
Osipyan's, which is a gross violation of the law," Gaspari said.
epress.am
09.22.2011
Armenian National Congress (HAK) activist Vardges Gaspari was staging
a protest during the military parade marking 20 years of Armenian
independence yesterday when he was forcibly removed from Yerevan's
Republic Square.
The opposition activist recounted his story to Epress.am today.
"During the military parade, I held a poster on which it was written
that ironic [or ridiculous] is a parade for an army in which more
people die from bullets fired by our own soldiers than those fired by
the enemy. I was standing on my own outside the government building,
when suddenly someone in plainclothes came, attacked [me] and stole
my poster. At that time, I lay on the ground. Red berets [Armenia's
Police Patrol Service] led by Valeriy Osipyan appeared and dragged me
to the Hanrapetutyun [Republic Square] metro station and they weren't
letting me go forward from there. Osipyan was saying, 'He's mentally
ill.' Regarding this matter, I have prepared a statement [to report]
a crime, as well as a separate statement for that expression of
Osipyan's, which is a gross violation of the law," Gaspari said.