Manvel Grigoryan: Tricksters cannot enter Artsakh (video)
Before the start of today’s parliament sitting, journalists asked legislators about the Saturday incident near Berdzor and asked them to comment on the violence used against the participants of an automobile rally organized by the Founding Parliament movement. General Manvel Grigoryan, a lawmaker from the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), said tricksters are denied entry into Artsakh (Karabakh) while ordinary citizens can go there freely. Republican Karen Karapetyan refused to answer the question, saying journalists were disturbing him. Rustam Gasparyan, a lawmaker representing the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK), condemned the incident and said the perpetrators must be punished strictly. Police in Nagorno-Karabakh stopped on Saturday members of the Founding Parliament, a successor of the Pre-Parliament pressure group, who were holding an automobile rally to Karabakh. Among the participants were also Jirayr Sefilian, a former commander of Shushi special battalion, and other veterans of the Karabakh war, who are said to have beaten up by the Karabakh police and young men wearing special police task force uniforms. The Founding Parliament says more than a dozen participants of the automobile rally were injured in the incident that happened on the Goris-Stepanakert highway near Berdzor. Journalist Anushavan Shahnazaryan was also hospitalized with injuries in Goris.
