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A CLASH BETWEEN THE HERITAGE PARTY MEMBERS AND THE POLICE IN FREEDOM SQUARE (VIDEO)
March 14 2013
Raffi Hovhannisyan called for a moment of silence to honor artist and
intellectual Hakob Hakobyan before the open-air press conference
of Hovsep Khurshudyan, the spokesman for Raffi Hovhannisyan's
headquarters, in Freedom Square today. Today is his funeral, and Raffi
Hovhannisyan was sorry that he couldn't be present. Mr. Khurshudyan
said that they could imagine what ruling the Constitutional Court
would make. He informed that the Heritage Party, Stepan Safaryan,
the secretary general of the party for external relations, sent
a letter to Wilfried Martens, the European People's Party (EPP)
President. The letter states that as he knows, on February 18, a
presidential election took place in Armenia. Before the campaign he
had conveyed his warm wishes to both candidates, and expressed hope
that a free and fair election would be conducted. It wasn't fair at
all, since the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) tried to steal the
people's vote. It is nothing short of a miracle that despite Serzh
Sargsyan abused state resources, Raffi Hovannisyan won a victory. They
also inform Mr.
Martens in the letter that Raffi Hovhannisyan is on a hunger strike
and call on him to reconsider the decision to congratulate the
incumbent president, in accordance with democratic standards. Armen
Martirosyan, in his turn, applied to the city hall yesterday, asking
to allow putting up one tent and one canopy. "We have received a
decision from the city hall, according to which, the list of immobile
monuments of Yerevan has been approved; it includes Freedom Square,
which includes the Aram Khachaturian Big Concert Hall, the Aram
Khachaturian Monument etc." They decided to deny the request to put
up a tent and grant the request regarding three canopies, which can
be used only for protection against bad weather." According to Hovsep
Khurshudyan, they are not allowed to put up a tent on the asphalted
area, but they are allowed to do that on the greenbelt area. Once
they said this, the members of the Heritage Party started to put
up a tent, which was prevented by police officers. At this moment,
representatives of the Heritage Party, along with their supporters,
try to put up the tent. The police officers are going for a clash,
pushing those gathered, and trampling down the tent. Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/14/152939/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: A. Papazian
March 14 2013
Raffi Hovhannisyan called for a moment of silence to honor artist and
intellectual Hakob Hakobyan before the open-air press conference
of Hovsep Khurshudyan, the spokesman for Raffi Hovhannisyan's
headquarters, in Freedom Square today. Today is his funeral, and Raffi
Hovhannisyan was sorry that he couldn't be present. Mr. Khurshudyan
said that they could imagine what ruling the Constitutional Court
would make. He informed that the Heritage Party, Stepan Safaryan,
the secretary general of the party for external relations, sent
a letter to Wilfried Martens, the European People's Party (EPP)
President. The letter states that as he knows, on February 18, a
presidential election took place in Armenia. Before the campaign he
had conveyed his warm wishes to both candidates, and expressed hope
that a free and fair election would be conducted. It wasn't fair at
all, since the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) tried to steal the
people's vote. It is nothing short of a miracle that despite Serzh
Sargsyan abused state resources, Raffi Hovannisyan won a victory. They
also inform Mr.
Martens in the letter that Raffi Hovhannisyan is on a hunger strike
and call on him to reconsider the decision to congratulate the
incumbent president, in accordance with democratic standards. Armen
Martirosyan, in his turn, applied to the city hall yesterday, asking
to allow putting up one tent and one canopy. "We have received a
decision from the city hall, according to which, the list of immobile
monuments of Yerevan has been approved; it includes Freedom Square,
which includes the Aram Khachaturian Big Concert Hall, the Aram
Khachaturian Monument etc." They decided to deny the request to put
up a tent and grant the request regarding three canopies, which can
be used only for protection against bad weather." According to Hovsep
Khurshudyan, they are not allowed to put up a tent on the asphalted
area, but they are allowed to do that on the greenbelt area. Once
they said this, the members of the Heritage Party started to put
up a tent, which was prevented by police officers. At this moment,
representatives of the Heritage Party, along with their supporters,
try to put up the tent. The police officers are going for a clash,
pushing those gathered, and trampling down the tent. Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/03/14/152939/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: A. Papazian