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The Lawsuit Against an Official Who Said, `I Will Kill Her' to a
Journalist Is in Court (Video)
March 29 2013
`We decided to file a lawsuit in court, in order that officials don't
feel free and know that they are responsible before the law and the
Constitution,' Tsovinar Nazaryan, a reporter of the New York Institute
of Photography, explained the lawsuit filed by her representatives,
Tigran Yegoryan and Lusine Hakobyan, against Tigran Virabyan, the head
of the department of agriculture and environment protection, town hall
of Ararat, a representative of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA)
and the chairman of the commission at no. 17/4 polling place, in the
trial court of the regions of Ararat and Vayots Dzor. T. Nazaryan said
during a conversation with us that T. Virabyan had addressed her with
`I will kill her,' `She is hysterical' phrases on the presidential
election day, which had been filmed and uploaded to YouTube. Talking
about Mr. Virabyan's activities, T. Nazaryan stated: `He controls
Khosrov Reserve, great riches. He has been dealing with electoral
processes for 20 years and has been the head of a department for 10
years. In Ararat, he is an active organizer of elections, certainly,
always representing the government. His nephew was also a member of
the commission representing the Heritage Party, but from the RPA, his
son and friends were S. Sargsyan's poll-watchers; they would accompany
people to and from the polling place. He has a rich experience with
rigging elections, which he did on the election day.' Coming back to
what had happened in the polling place on February 18, the journalist
recollected: `They would continuously pressure observers and me, and
wouldn't allow filming. He twice called the chairman of the polling
place commission who took action against us. He ordered S. Sargsyan's
poll-watchers to film us all day long, then when I tried to interview
him, he started to make a speech for the whole commission; what's
more, they made a decision that we had impeded the electoral process.
He gave an order against us, and it was sacredly carried out. The
commission reminded of the Republican Party's office; there was no
oppositionist whatsoever.' T. Nazaryan informed us that they had filed
a civil lawsuit in the court, since the police did not see corpus
delicti. The journalist has already received a letter that the case
was accepted and the trial date would be set soon. T. Nazaryan said
the following about the demand: `We demand that Tigran Virabyan
apologize to me and the observer, film it and upload it to YouTube, as
compensation for moral damages and pay a million drams.' Assessing the
incident, our interlocutor expressed an opinion: `It is caused by the
atmosphere created by the Republican Party when members of that party
are allowed to do what is in the interests of the RPA, as a result of
which they are rewarded with lucrative offices. They continuously play
the role of an attendant in electoral processes when they bring people
on the election day and collect votes for the Republican Party.'
www.aravot.am tried to get clarification from Tigran Virabyan too.
However, his office manager would tell us during the whole day that
Virabyan was at a consultation. However, we managed to somehow talk
with Virabyan himself in the afternoon. However, when he heard that
the call was from Aravot Daily and found out about the issue, he hung
up, not even hearing us out. Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/29/153278/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: A. Papazian
Journalist Is in Court (Video)
March 29 2013
`We decided to file a lawsuit in court, in order that officials don't
feel free and know that they are responsible before the law and the
Constitution,' Tsovinar Nazaryan, a reporter of the New York Institute
of Photography, explained the lawsuit filed by her representatives,
Tigran Yegoryan and Lusine Hakobyan, against Tigran Virabyan, the head
of the department of agriculture and environment protection, town hall
of Ararat, a representative of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA)
and the chairman of the commission at no. 17/4 polling place, in the
trial court of the regions of Ararat and Vayots Dzor. T. Nazaryan said
during a conversation with us that T. Virabyan had addressed her with
`I will kill her,' `She is hysterical' phrases on the presidential
election day, which had been filmed and uploaded to YouTube. Talking
about Mr. Virabyan's activities, T. Nazaryan stated: `He controls
Khosrov Reserve, great riches. He has been dealing with electoral
processes for 20 years and has been the head of a department for 10
years. In Ararat, he is an active organizer of elections, certainly,
always representing the government. His nephew was also a member of
the commission representing the Heritage Party, but from the RPA, his
son and friends were S. Sargsyan's poll-watchers; they would accompany
people to and from the polling place. He has a rich experience with
rigging elections, which he did on the election day.' Coming back to
what had happened in the polling place on February 18, the journalist
recollected: `They would continuously pressure observers and me, and
wouldn't allow filming. He twice called the chairman of the polling
place commission who took action against us. He ordered S. Sargsyan's
poll-watchers to film us all day long, then when I tried to interview
him, he started to make a speech for the whole commission; what's
more, they made a decision that we had impeded the electoral process.
He gave an order against us, and it was sacredly carried out. The
commission reminded of the Republican Party's office; there was no
oppositionist whatsoever.' T. Nazaryan informed us that they had filed
a civil lawsuit in the court, since the police did not see corpus
delicti. The journalist has already received a letter that the case
was accepted and the trial date would be set soon. T. Nazaryan said
the following about the demand: `We demand that Tigran Virabyan
apologize to me and the observer, film it and upload it to YouTube, as
compensation for moral damages and pay a million drams.' Assessing the
incident, our interlocutor expressed an opinion: `It is caused by the
atmosphere created by the Republican Party when members of that party
are allowed to do what is in the interests of the RPA, as a result of
which they are rewarded with lucrative offices. They continuously play
the role of an attendant in electoral processes when they bring people
on the election day and collect votes for the Republican Party.'
www.aravot.am tried to get clarification from Tigran Virabyan too.
However, his office manager would tell us during the whole day that
Virabyan was at a consultation. However, we managed to somehow talk
with Virabyan himself in the afternoon. However, when he heard that
the call was from Aravot Daily and found out about the issue, he hung
up, not even hearing us out. Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/29/153278/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: A. Papazian