THE LAW BANNING DEMONSTRATIONS TO HAVE EFFECT IN SUMMER
Support A1+!The latest amendments to the “Law on conducting meetings, marches, demonstrations and rallies” do not meet the requirements of the PACE Resolution 1609. The latter required immediate nullification of 17 March changes.
“Here we evidently deal with a case of unjust manipulation”, declares Stepan Safarian, member of the “Heritage” Party.
He notices that NA Speaker Tigran Torossian proposed a bill “drafted without a discussion and consultation”. He also reminds that Torossian had spoken for the 17 March changes considering them necessary, important, and grounded.
“During the discussion we did not yet have the experimental conclusions of the Venice Commission and the OSCE ODIHR. That is, Torossian introduced a bill and without inner approval sent it to the Venice Commission. Then it was put into circulation and discussed at the commission without the experts’ conclusion. And on Monday we were informed about the “experts’ conclusion”, complains Safarian.
“There was only the conclusion of an Irishwoman expert.”
Safarian also noticed some “exciting” details in the proposals of implementation of the PACE Resolution terms and he is seriously worried about them.
“It was enlightened in the documents that the law will take effect after the second reading, i.e. in September. So, during all summer we shall have to obey the 17 March changes banning rallies and demonstrations”, notices Stepan Safarian.
