“THE BAND IS HEADED BY HOVHANNES SHAHINYAN”

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Yesterday at 19.30 “A1+” received a call that Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s proxies were beaten and made out of the 4/26 election precinct. The head of the election commission informed us that at 19 p.m. Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s proxies left the precinct and did not return. The representatives of “Orinats Yerkir” party and the ARF, as well members of the commission and other proxies ensured us that they had not heard any noise in the precinct and no case of brawl was registered.

By the way, the CIS, OSCE and PACE observers also arrived at the polling station with us. They did not discover anything. They talked to the representatives of “Orinats Yerkir” party and members of the commission and proxies, who rejected any cases of valuation. The observers also talked to the policemen who were present at the election district, who reject any cases of brawl as well.

At 20.00 when the election precinct was closed, the commission began counting the ballot papers without Ter-Petrosyan’s proxy. At 20.10 p.m. the RA former Prime Minister, member of Ter-Petrosyan’s headquarter Hrant Bagratyan arrived at the election precinct. The head of the commission did not want to open the door and let Hrant Bagratyan in. The head of the commission did not allow us come out of the precinct motivating that we had entered the precinct and have no right to come out. But when we insisted on our right rights, he responded that if he opened the door, people would intrude into the precinct. Only 3 people were standing outdoors and waiting for the door to be opened, but the head of the commission had to call police informing allegedly 100 people had blockaded the territory. The police arrived in 5 minutes and were astonished to see 3 people and two journalists waiting outdoors.

Before leaving the election precinct we tried to call the CEC and ask why we were not let out of the precinct. We received a call, and a man asked us to pass the phone to the head of the commission. Later we found out that the call was not from the CEC, Hrant Bagratyan was calling since he did not find any other way to talk to the head of the commission.

The OSCE and the CIS observers qualified this as a pressure on the commission, registered the names of “A1+” correspondent and operator as violators of the law and promised to mention our names in their reports. But when we asked them why they did not take a measure to reveal the disappearance of Ter-Petrosyan’s proxies, the CIS observer and the OSCE observer responded that they did not find any proves, the police denied the incident and they qualified our activities as hindering the activities of the commission.

We present the faces of people who were beaten severely. “A1+” talked to them at Ter-Petrosyan’s headquarter in Arabkir community. They told how Ter-Petrosyan’s people were beaten by some people who arrived at the precinct in 40 cars, invited the proxies and the observer out and said: “Ter-Petrosyan’s people have nothing to do here. Go away, do not return”. According to the suffered, the band was headed by the head of Arabkir community Hovik Shahinyan.

By the way, the observers who were following the whole election process, ensured us that 800 of 1200 voters voted for Ter-Petrosyan.