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HEALTH CONDITION OF BEATEN MEMBER OF PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY CRITICAL BUT STABLE - BROTHER
YEREVAN, February 9. /ARKA/. Health condition of Artak Khachatryan,
a member of Prosperous Armenia Party's board, is critical but stable,
his brother, Artem Khachatryan, told reporters on Monday.
He was quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying that some positive signed
were already seen and special measures have been undertaken along with
lung drainage to ease breathing, and this will last two or three days.
In his words, his brother has his lugs injured and ribs broken.
According to the Armenian Investigation Committee, on Saturday at
12:00 local time, Artak Khachatryan was kidnapped and beaten by a
group of unidentified men.
Artem Khachatryan ruled out possibility of criminal wrangles saying
that his brother had no ties with criminals and oligarchs.
"He was involved in public activity over the last five years," he
said. He is a member of a movement called Kasetsum that is struggling
against the amendments to the turnover tax law to which small and
medium entrepreneurs are strongly opposed.
The National Assembly, responding to the government's proposal,
postponed enforcement of the amendments until July 2015.
The postponement was prompted by the protests staged by SMEs. Artem
Khachatryan denounced this violence not as a crime against only one
person, but against the whole society.
He, however, refrained from naming suspects. Levon Torosyan and Armen
Nersisyan, representatives of Kasetsum movement, said a demonstration
will be staged on Monday outside the government building.
He also stressed that the movement is vigorously combating corruption
and assumed that may be somebody was unhappy about this.
On Sunday, the Prosperous Armenia's board issued a statement condemning
the kidnapping and denouncing it as an impudent and cynical challenge
tossed to political forces and society.
"It is obvious that the political leadership of the country is
responsible for what happened," the party's members said in their
statement. Prosperous Armenia, a moderate centrist liberal-leaning
party, was established in April 2004 by Gagik Tsarukyan, a prominent
entrepreneur.
In the 2012 parliamentary elections, the party won 36 of 131 seats
in the National Assembly forming the second biggest faction here.
Over a period between 2007 and 2012 the party was a member of the
ruling coalition, but now it introduces itself as an alternative
political party. --0-----
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YEREVAN, February 9. /ARKA/. Health condition of Artak Khachatryan,
a member of Prosperous Armenia Party's board, is critical but stable,
his brother, Artem Khachatryan, told reporters on Monday.
He was quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying that some positive signed
were already seen and special measures have been undertaken along with
lung drainage to ease breathing, and this will last two or three days.
In his words, his brother has his lugs injured and ribs broken.
According to the Armenian Investigation Committee, on Saturday at
12:00 local time, Artak Khachatryan was kidnapped and beaten by a
group of unidentified men.
Artem Khachatryan ruled out possibility of criminal wrangles saying
that his brother had no ties with criminals and oligarchs.
"He was involved in public activity over the last five years," he
said. He is a member of a movement called Kasetsum that is struggling
against the amendments to the turnover tax law to which small and
medium entrepreneurs are strongly opposed.
The National Assembly, responding to the government's proposal,
postponed enforcement of the amendments until July 2015.
The postponement was prompted by the protests staged by SMEs. Artem
Khachatryan denounced this violence not as a crime against only one
person, but against the whole society.
He, however, refrained from naming suspects. Levon Torosyan and Armen
Nersisyan, representatives of Kasetsum movement, said a demonstration
will be staged on Monday outside the government building.
He also stressed that the movement is vigorously combating corruption
and assumed that may be somebody was unhappy about this.
On Sunday, the Prosperous Armenia's board issued a statement condemning
the kidnapping and denouncing it as an impudent and cynical challenge
tossed to political forces and society.
"It is obvious that the political leadership of the country is
responsible for what happened," the party's members said in their
statement. Prosperous Armenia, a moderate centrist liberal-leaning
party, was established in April 2004 by Gagik Tsarukyan, a prominent
entrepreneur.
In the 2012 parliamentary elections, the party won 36 of 131 seats
in the National Assembly forming the second biggest faction here.
Over a period between 2007 and 2012 the party was a member of the
ruling coalition, but now it introduces itself as an alternative
political party. --0-----
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