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  • Setting Up Tent Not Violation Of Public Order - Armenian Ombudsman

    SETTING UP TENT NOT VIOLATION OF PUBLIC ORDER - ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN

    Tert.am
    15:21 ~U 14.03.13

    On March 21, 2011, when Heritage party Chairman Raffi Hovannisian
    went on a hunger strike and wanted to set up a tent in Freedom Square,
    Armenian Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Karen Andreasyan issued a
    statement saying that a ban on setting up a tent was a violation of
    human rights.

    On March 14, 2013, Heritage party members wanted to set up a tent in
    Yerevan's Freedom Square, but the policemen did not allow them to. A
    representative of Armenia's Ombudsman arrived at the square and said
    that the policemen were violating human rights.

    Heritage party Spokesman Hovsep Khurshudyan referred to international
    legal norms defending hunger-strikers' right to set up tents.

    According to him, in 2011, when Raffi Hovannisian was on a hunger
    strike and set up a tent, numerous representatives of Armenia's ruling
    coalition said that "there was no violation of law."

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