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PAP CLAIMS "GOVERNMENT REPRESSIONS" AMID REPORTS OF DETENTIONS
POLITICS | 17.02.15 | 10:45
The opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) says several of its
members were detained on unspecified grounds late on Monday, claiming
that it is part of a government crackdown launched against the party
and its leader Gagik Tsarukyan last week.
Talking to RFE/RL's Armenian Service, PAP lawmaker Elinar Vardanyan
said Artur Mamoyan, the leader of the party's chapter in Yerevan's
Nor-Nork district, had been taken to a police station on unspecified
grounds earlier yesterday. She said they also had information
about detentions of BHK activists elsewhere in the city. Later it
was reported that Mamoyan was detained on suspicion of illegally
keeping weapons.
The lawmaker linked the recent "political repressions" against the
party with the February 12 statements by President Serzh Sargsyan
who described PAP leader Tsarukyan as "evil" for the country and
effectively called for his ouster from politics.
Earlier on Monday, Armenia's former president Robert Kocharyan, who is
regarded by many as Tsarukyan's political patron, warned the government
against taking any further action against the PAP and its leader.
"Taking into account the degree of social tensions and discontent in
the country, as well as the BHK's and its leader's wide popularity,
the more vigorously the government will try to "clean up" the political
field, the stronger will be the consolidation against the government
and the more so real will be the prospect of political upheavals,"
Kocharyan told his unofficial website, 2rd.am.
The PAP and its key opposition allies, the Armenian National Congress
and Heritage, plan to hold a joint rally in Yerevan on February 20.
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/60681/armenia_pap_pressure_report
From: Baghdasarian
POLITICS | 17.02.15 | 10:45
The opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) says several of its
members were detained on unspecified grounds late on Monday, claiming
that it is part of a government crackdown launched against the party
and its leader Gagik Tsarukyan last week.
Talking to RFE/RL's Armenian Service, PAP lawmaker Elinar Vardanyan
said Artur Mamoyan, the leader of the party's chapter in Yerevan's
Nor-Nork district, had been taken to a police station on unspecified
grounds earlier yesterday. She said they also had information
about detentions of BHK activists elsewhere in the city. Later it
was reported that Mamoyan was detained on suspicion of illegally
keeping weapons.
The lawmaker linked the recent "political repressions" against the
party with the February 12 statements by President Serzh Sargsyan
who described PAP leader Tsarukyan as "evil" for the country and
effectively called for his ouster from politics.
Earlier on Monday, Armenia's former president Robert Kocharyan, who is
regarded by many as Tsarukyan's political patron, warned the government
against taking any further action against the PAP and its leader.
"Taking into account the degree of social tensions and discontent in
the country, as well as the BHK's and its leader's wide popularity,
the more vigorously the government will try to "clean up" the political
field, the stronger will be the consolidation against the government
and the more so real will be the prospect of political upheavals,"
Kocharyan told his unofficial website, 2rd.am.
The PAP and its key opposition allies, the Armenian National Congress
and Heritage, plan to hold a joint rally in Yerevan on February 20.
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/60681/armenia_pap_pressure_report
From: Baghdasarian