Lawyer has been unable to present a report to the Prosecutor's Office for 8 days (video)
Nine members of the New Armenia Public Salvation Front demand punishment for police officers who used violence against them at the beginning of the year. However, lawyer Tigan Hayrapetyan has been unable to present a report [on crime] to the Prosecutor General's Office for the past eight days. “They did not open the door for a long time. Then someone showed up and said they had no right to take the document. I told him to hand the report to the prosecutor on duty, but he said they did not have one available at that moment. It is already the eighth day, we cannot find a prosecutor on duty in the Republic of Armenia,” the lawyer said. Earlier this week, Gevorg Safaryan, a representative of the New Armenia Front, was arrested after clashes with police in Yerevan on New Year’s Eve and was charged with violence against a police representative [Gegham Khachatryan]. On December 31, several dozens of activists tried to place a Christmas tree at Liberty Square without coordination of the Yerevan Municipality, but the police did not allow them to do so. Suzan Simonyan, another member of the New Armenia opposition movement, says she also suffered from the actions of the police. “They hit me and threw onto the ground. I was lying in the snow with the Christmas tree in my hand. A group of men were fighting and dragging one another trampling me. They also insulted and bad mouthed all those who did not obey them,” she recalled. New Armenia has held a protest action near Gegham Khachatryan’s house in support of the arrested activist [Gevorg Safaryan]. Five more activists were taken to the police after the December 31 clashes, but they were freed later. Another member of the Public Salvation Front, Suzy Gevorgyan, 23, was subjected to violence in the yard of her house on January 5. "I felt I was being followed by two men. They threw me to the ground. I fell down and kicked me with their feet,” she tells. The activist, who moved to Armenia permanently a month ago, has been subjected to violence for the second time. “Don’t they realize that they cannot silence us and stop us from fighting for our homeland by using force and violence?” she says. Suzy’s dream is to build a free and independent Armenia, where there will be no place for impunity and illegality. Members of the New Armenia group again gathered outside the police building this morning demanding punishment for real wrongdoers. “They did not open the door for a long time. Then someone showed up and said they had no right to take the document. I told him to hand the report to the prosecutor on duty, but he said they did not have one available at that moment. It is already the eighth day, we cannot find a prosecutor on duty in the Republic of Armenia,” the lawyer said. Earlier this week, Gevorg Safaryan, a representative of the New Armenia Front, was arrested after clashes with police in Yerevan on New Year’s Eve and was charged with violence against a police representative [Gegham Khachatryan]. On December 31, several dozens of activists tried to place a Christmas tree at Liberty Square without coordination of the Yerevan Municipality, but the police did not allow them to do so. Suzan Simonyan, another member of the New Armenia opposition movement, says she also suffered from the actions of the police. “They hit me and threw onto the ground. I was lying in the snow with the Christmas tree in my hand. A group of men were fighting and dragging one another trampling me. They also insulted and bad mouthed all those who did not obey them,” she recalled. New Armenia has held a protest action near Gegham Khachatryan’s house in support of the arrested activist [Gevorg Safaryan]. Five more activists were taken to the police after the December 31 clashes, but they were freed later. Another member of the Public Salvation Front, Suzy Gevorgyan, 23, was subjected to violence in the yard of her house on January 5. "I felt I was being followed by two men. They threw me to the ground. I fell down and kicked me with their feet,” she tells. The activist, who moved to Armenia permanently a month ago, has been subjected to violence for the second time. “Don’t they realize that they cannot silence us and stop us from fighting for our homeland by using force and violence?” she says. Suzy’s dream is to build a free and independent Armenia, where there will be no place for impunity and illegality. Members of the New Armenia group again gathered outside the police building this morning demanding punishment for real wrongdoers.
