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GLENDALE'S ARMENIAN COMMUNITY PROTESTS YEREVAN RESTAURANT MURDER
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July 14, 2012 | 11:21
LOS ANGELES. - A crowd gathered outside the Los Angeles Consulate
General of Armenia on Friday to protest, once again, the murder of
Vahe Avetyan and deliver a series of demands to the Government of
Armenia, Asbarez informs.
One of the participants was Avetyan's cousin. He made a heartfelt
plea that the laws of the land be implemented and simple justice be
served upon those who murdered his relative.
The approximately hour-long protest drew a photographer from the
Glendale News Press and the Glendale police department.
Consulate staff allowed only one person to enter the building from
among the demonstrators to deliver the demands, which are:
1. An emergency session of Armenia's National Assembly be convened.
2. The Prosecutor General indict Ruben Hayrapetyan as a codefendant
in the Avetyan murder case.
3. Hayrapetyan be dismissed from the National Assembly for violating
its rules prohibiting entrepreneurial activity by sitting Deputies.
4. An impartial investigation be conducted of Hayrapetyan's offenses
and Avetyan's murder.
5. Hayrapetyan be dismissed from his post as President of the Football
Federation of Armenia.
Future protests will be held at the same location on Sundays at
1pm, with a special demonstration is planned for Avetyan's Forty
Day memorial.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an incident had occurred at
capital city Yerevan's Harsnaqar Restaurant on June 17, where several
military doctors including Edgar Mikoyan, Arkadi Aghajanyan, Garik
Soghomonyan, Artak Bayadyan and Vahe Avetyan were brutally beaten by
Hayrapetyan's security personnel. And Vahe Avetyan died in hospital
on June 29. A criminal case is launched and the Police have detained
six people.
The Restaurant's owner is senior ruling party MP, Football Federation
of Armenia President, and businessman Ruben Hayrapetyan, who on July
3 formally submitted his resignation from his parliamentary seat.
news.am
July 14, 2012 | 11:21
LOS ANGELES. - A crowd gathered outside the Los Angeles Consulate
General of Armenia on Friday to protest, once again, the murder of
Vahe Avetyan and deliver a series of demands to the Government of
Armenia, Asbarez informs.
One of the participants was Avetyan's cousin. He made a heartfelt
plea that the laws of the land be implemented and simple justice be
served upon those who murdered his relative.
The approximately hour-long protest drew a photographer from the
Glendale News Press and the Glendale police department.
Consulate staff allowed only one person to enter the building from
among the demonstrators to deliver the demands, which are:
1. An emergency session of Armenia's National Assembly be convened.
2. The Prosecutor General indict Ruben Hayrapetyan as a codefendant
in the Avetyan murder case.
3. Hayrapetyan be dismissed from the National Assembly for violating
its rules prohibiting entrepreneurial activity by sitting Deputies.
4. An impartial investigation be conducted of Hayrapetyan's offenses
and Avetyan's murder.
5. Hayrapetyan be dismissed from his post as President of the Football
Federation of Armenia.
Future protests will be held at the same location on Sundays at
1pm, with a special demonstration is planned for Avetyan's Forty
Day memorial.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an incident had occurred at
capital city Yerevan's Harsnaqar Restaurant on June 17, where several
military doctors including Edgar Mikoyan, Arkadi Aghajanyan, Garik
Soghomonyan, Artak Bayadyan and Vahe Avetyan were brutally beaten by
Hayrapetyan's security personnel. And Vahe Avetyan died in hospital
on June 29. A criminal case is launched and the Police have detained
six people.
The Restaurant's owner is senior ruling party MP, Football Federation
of Armenia President, and businessman Ruben Hayrapetyan, who on July
3 formally submitted his resignation from his parliamentary seat.