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Opposition members charge police with interfering in call for rally
POLITICS | 08.04.13 | 15:30
By GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
Members of opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian's party say police are
trying to interfere with Tuesday's scheduled `inauguration of a new
Armenia' by tearing down announcements calling for public attendance.
Organizers of the rally have received an official permit from Yerevan City Hall.
Heritage party member Daniel Ionisian told ArmeniaNow, that Sunday
evening party activists witnessed and videotaped a vehicle whose
passengers tore off the information flyers.
`It was a non-state license plate car, and when later we were on our
way to the police to report the incident, we saw the same car pass by
us right at the entrance to the police station. It had the same front
license plate, and two policemen got out of it,' says Ionisian, adding
that the car rapidly drove away as soon as those inside spotted them.
He also says that they asked the police to stop the car, but no
actions were taken. Ionisian also claims that when the activists
wanted to include the incident at the police station in their report,
they were `threatened not to'.
`In any case, this vehicle is somehow connected to the police. I can
put my hand on my heart and insist with clear conscience that the
police are involved in immediately tearing off the flyers, judging
from the fact that the lieutenant colonel of the police was doing
everything to prevent the incident being recorded and was even issuing
threats. They either sponsor those people or are the perpetrators
themselves, otherwise there wouldn't have reacted the way they did,'
says Ionisian.
From: Baghdasarian
POLITICS | 08.04.13 | 15:30
By GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
Members of opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian's party say police are
trying to interfere with Tuesday's scheduled `inauguration of a new
Armenia' by tearing down announcements calling for public attendance.
Organizers of the rally have received an official permit from Yerevan City Hall.
Heritage party member Daniel Ionisian told ArmeniaNow, that Sunday
evening party activists witnessed and videotaped a vehicle whose
passengers tore off the information flyers.
`It was a non-state license plate car, and when later we were on our
way to the police to report the incident, we saw the same car pass by
us right at the entrance to the police station. It had the same front
license plate, and two policemen got out of it,' says Ionisian, adding
that the car rapidly drove away as soon as those inside spotted them.
He also says that they asked the police to stop the car, but no
actions were taken. Ionisian also claims that when the activists
wanted to include the incident at the police station in their report,
they were `threatened not to'.
`In any case, this vehicle is somehow connected to the police. I can
put my hand on my heart and insist with clear conscience that the
police are involved in immediately tearing off the flyers, judging
from the fact that the lieutenant colonel of the police was doing
everything to prevent the incident being recorded and was even issuing
threats. They either sponsor those people or are the perpetrators
themselves, otherwise there wouldn't have reacted the way they did,'
says Ionisian.
From: Baghdasarian