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Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 21 2014
Israeli Arab in Armenian prison
21 March 2014 - 10:15am
Peter Lukimson, Israel. Exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
The Israeli Foreign Ministry finally begins to worry about a resident
of the Arab town of Tyre, 28, who is imprisoned in a Yerevan prison
for a fight with a local taxi driver.
All details of the incident are known from hearsay of relatives of the
young man and have to be checked. They say that the young Israeli Arab
and several other Israeli citizens took a taxi to a Yerevan night
clubs to celebrate their graduation. When it was time to pay, young
people thought that a driver overcharged them by a couple of dollars.
They began to sort things out, it turned into a fight during which a
side mirror of the cab was broken.
Tyre's resident says that finally he paid for the broken mirror to the
driver and decided that it was an end of the episode. However, the
young man faced a group of taxi drivers. A fight began again, one of
drivers was injured by a knife or a glass bottle.
Participants of the fight were arrested by the Yerevan police, but
soon all Israeli citizens were set free, except for Tyre's resident.
The family of the young Arab states that the Armenian mafia frightens
him, demanding buoying-out.
Usually the special department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry deals
with such problems, but in recent weeks its employees are striking and
not working. Only this week "as an exception" they decided to consider
"the Armenian incident." The problem is that unlike in Baku or
Tbilisi, there is no Israeli embassy in Yerevan, only the honorary
consul represents interests of the Jewish state there.
At the same time, there are diplomatic contacts between the countries
and they have already been used.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry doesn't exclude that the Armenian
law-enforcement agencies have reasons for arresting the Israeli
citizen, and in this case Israeli diplomats will do their best for his
rights are followed appropriately.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/society/52951.html
March 21 2014
Israeli Arab in Armenian prison
21 March 2014 - 10:15am
Peter Lukimson, Israel. Exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
The Israeli Foreign Ministry finally begins to worry about a resident
of the Arab town of Tyre, 28, who is imprisoned in a Yerevan prison
for a fight with a local taxi driver.
All details of the incident are known from hearsay of relatives of the
young man and have to be checked. They say that the young Israeli Arab
and several other Israeli citizens took a taxi to a Yerevan night
clubs to celebrate their graduation. When it was time to pay, young
people thought that a driver overcharged them by a couple of dollars.
They began to sort things out, it turned into a fight during which a
side mirror of the cab was broken.
Tyre's resident says that finally he paid for the broken mirror to the
driver and decided that it was an end of the episode. However, the
young man faced a group of taxi drivers. A fight began again, one of
drivers was injured by a knife or a glass bottle.
Participants of the fight were arrested by the Yerevan police, but
soon all Israeli citizens were set free, except for Tyre's resident.
The family of the young Arab states that the Armenian mafia frightens
him, demanding buoying-out.
Usually the special department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry deals
with such problems, but in recent weeks its employees are striking and
not working. Only this week "as an exception" they decided to consider
"the Armenian incident." The problem is that unlike in Baku or
Tbilisi, there is no Israeli embassy in Yerevan, only the honorary
consul represents interests of the Jewish state there.
At the same time, there are diplomatic contacts between the countries
and they have already been used.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry doesn't exclude that the Armenian
law-enforcement agencies have reasons for arresting the Israeli
citizen, and in this case Israeli diplomats will do their best for his
rights are followed appropriately.
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/society/52951.html