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HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST: THEY WOULD IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFY THE ASSISTANT IF A REPUBLICAN WERE ATTACKED (VIDEO)
11:25 | December 17,2014 | Politics
Member of the Pre-Parliament Initiative Gevorg Safaryan shows the
place where he was attacked by unknown people and knocked unconscious
on November 27.
"There were cameras in the area but the police took the recording
only 14 days later and I am not sure whether the footage has remained
or not. Anyway, I believe that the police will erase the video if
it is still there. The cameras are so powerful that they can fix
the license plate number and the faces of people who attacked me,"
Gevorg Safaryan told A1+.
The police are now investigating the case; however, the Pre-Parliament
member believes that the incident will not be disclosed. "It is clear
that there will be no result, because those are happenings organized
by the cruel regime and the police are part of that regime which will
never arrest its own criminals," he said.
Before the attack on Gevorg Safaryan, seven cars belonging to
Pre-Parliament candidates were set afire. Later, masked people
attacked and beat up several Karabakh war veterans and opposition
lawmaker Aram Manukyan.
On Sunday, the police said they had detained the man suspected of
the attack on Mr Manukyan due to operative-search measures. The man
was identified as Arshak Svazyan born in 1973. Later, Svazyan was
reported to have been released.
"During a briefing, [Prosecutor General] Gevorg Kostanyan justified
the perpetrator of the violence and sent him home. Had a Republican MP
been attacked and beaten up, they would have immediately identified
the assailant and punished him: Republicans are well protected in
Armenia," said human rights activist Janna Alexanyan, Chairperson of
the "Journalists for Human Rights" NGO.
http://en.a1plus.am/1202669.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX5NtCyPtz8
11:25 | December 17,2014 | Politics
Member of the Pre-Parliament Initiative Gevorg Safaryan shows the
place where he was attacked by unknown people and knocked unconscious
on November 27.
"There were cameras in the area but the police took the recording
only 14 days later and I am not sure whether the footage has remained
or not. Anyway, I believe that the police will erase the video if
it is still there. The cameras are so powerful that they can fix
the license plate number and the faces of people who attacked me,"
Gevorg Safaryan told A1+.
The police are now investigating the case; however, the Pre-Parliament
member believes that the incident will not be disclosed. "It is clear
that there will be no result, because those are happenings organized
by the cruel regime and the police are part of that regime which will
never arrest its own criminals," he said.
Before the attack on Gevorg Safaryan, seven cars belonging to
Pre-Parliament candidates were set afire. Later, masked people
attacked and beat up several Karabakh war veterans and opposition
lawmaker Aram Manukyan.
On Sunday, the police said they had detained the man suspected of
the attack on Mr Manukyan due to operative-search measures. The man
was identified as Arshak Svazyan born in 1973. Later, Svazyan was
reported to have been released.
"During a briefing, [Prosecutor General] Gevorg Kostanyan justified
the perpetrator of the violence and sent him home. Had a Republican MP
been attacked and beaten up, they would have immediately identified
the assailant and punished him: Republicans are well protected in
Armenia," said human rights activist Janna Alexanyan, Chairperson of
the "Journalists for Human Rights" NGO.
http://en.a1plus.am/1202669.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX5NtCyPtz8