PICKETERS DEMAND TO SANCTION THE RALLY
Support A1+!Today scores of Armenian citizens staged a picket in front of the City Hall of Yerevan in protest against the City Hall’s disregard for their notifications of rallies. They demanded a meeting with Mayor Erwand Zakharian. But the policemen banned their access to the building chaining the entrance.
The picketers began chanting, “We call for justice,” “Freedom,” “Free and Independent Armenia.”
“The City Hall didn't accept our notification of holding a rally at Liberty Square on May 23-24. It is already the 28th time the City Hall has refused our notifications on groundless motivations,” says HHSh member Norik Norikian. “Here are our demands: firstly, to secure our representative’s presence in the sitting where the issue of rallies is put under consideration. Secondly, we demand the authorities to carry out the PACE recommendations. And thirdly, the Armenian leadership should accept our notification of the May 23-24 rally.
The Mayor didn’t receive the protesters today though they waited for him for two hours. picketers were told that the authorized employee was out and couldn’t receive them.
It is a great tragedy that a Mayor cannot receive a citizen. We shall be consistent. We shall hold a rally at Liberty Square if they don’t change their attitude towards us,” said the picketers.
