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HEAD OF ARMENIAN POLICE DOES NOT RECOGNIZE SHANT HAROUTIOUNYAN AS A POLITICAL PRISONER
by Ashot Safaryan
ARMINFO
Wednesday, December 10, 16:33
Head of Armenia's Police Vladimir Gasparyan told reporters Wednesday
he does not consider Shant Haroutiunyan, a civic activist and leader
of the Tseghakron Party, as a political prisoner.
"What are you talking about? Shant Haroutiunyan's case was anything
but political persecution," Gasparyan told reporters Wednesday and
recommended to drop the subject, as those incidents happened over
year ago.
Haroutiunyan was arrested on 5 November 2013 after clashes of
activists with the police in the Liberty Square. Before those
incidents, Haroutiunyan was picketing in the Square with a slogan
"I am declaring a revolution!" The activist was sentenced to 6 years
in prisoner after the trial that took over a year.
Asked if the police timely responded to the situation and whether it
was not possible to prevent the clashes, Gasparyan said: "I assure
you, if we interfered a few minutes earlier, they would say that the
police attacked the people who were doing nothing bad and were just
walking along the square. Yes, they were walking along...with sticks
and 'Molotov cocktails,'" Gasparyan said.
From: A. Papazian
by Ashot Safaryan
ARMINFO
Wednesday, December 10, 16:33
Head of Armenia's Police Vladimir Gasparyan told reporters Wednesday
he does not consider Shant Haroutiunyan, a civic activist and leader
of the Tseghakron Party, as a political prisoner.
"What are you talking about? Shant Haroutiunyan's case was anything
but political persecution," Gasparyan told reporters Wednesday and
recommended to drop the subject, as those incidents happened over
year ago.
Haroutiunyan was arrested on 5 November 2013 after clashes of
activists with the police in the Liberty Square. Before those
incidents, Haroutiunyan was picketing in the Square with a slogan
"I am declaring a revolution!" The activist was sentenced to 6 years
in prisoner after the trial that took over a year.
Asked if the police timely responded to the situation and whether it
was not possible to prevent the clashes, Gasparyan said: "I assure
you, if we interfered a few minutes earlier, they would say that the
police attacked the people who were doing nothing bad and were just
walking along the square. Yes, they were walking along...with sticks
and 'Molotov cocktails,'" Gasparyan said.
From: A. Papazian