Armenia's National Security Service To Conduct New Inspection At Civ

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ARMENIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY SERVICE TO CONDUCT NEW INSPECTION AT CIVILITAS FOUNDATION

TERT.AM
20:03 ~U 18.03.13

Armenia's National Security Service, which initiated criminal
proceedings against the Civilitas Foundation and its Founder Vartan
Oskanian, on May 25, 2012, had decided to demand the financial
documents for 2012 and 2013, the Foundation's statement.

The Security Service demands a report on the expenditures involving
41 private donations, Armenia's government and different grants.

The State Revenue Committee has postponed the inspection of the
Foundation's activities for 155 days against 90.

"The Foundation's normal activities have been hindered for the past ten
months, which involves unreasonable demands for different documents,
letters to all the partners of the Foundation, interrogations. They
must be hoping to find the grounds for further persecutions," says
the statement.

All the demands are politically motivated and are aimed to torpedo
the Foundation's projects of consolidating civil society and put an
end to its information activities. The Cilvilitas Foundation calls
on Armenia's authorities to stop the persecution.