VAZGEN MANUKYAN CONDEMNS
Support A1+!The “National Democratic Union” disseminated the following announcement.
Reflecting on 23 October incidents and the processes that followed it, which were not aimed at revealing the perpetrators and punishing them, the “National Democratic Union” announces:
Started from 1998 (when the nation stood up to protect its rights) and until the present day we live in a country, where human rights are not protected, laws are violated and the authorities try to reproduce themselves. Ordinary citizens, political actors and, particularly, representatives of mass media are beaten and persecuted for implementing their professional commitments. A similar incident took place on 23 October, when an informative rally was organized in Yerevan. Headed by the deputy head of the Yerevan Police Alexander Afyan women, teenagers, as well as editor-in-chiefs of some newspapers and party leaders were beaten and detained by police. Goyar Veziryan, a journalist, got serious corporal injures for carrying out her professional commitments. 11 citizens were brought to the police department in Yerevan.
The “National Democratic Union” condemns the brutality over the participants of the rally, which violated human rights and civil freedom and demands accurate and strict implementation of the law in regard with this incident. The “National Democratic Union” also reaffirms its approach, that only within the frameworks of a true democratic state, where the authorities are elected by the nation and are responsible for the nation; we will be able to get rid of such occurrences, which unfortunately have a traditional character in the country now.
The announcement was signed by the head of the “National Democratic Union” Vazgen Manukyan.
