“THE RALLY IS OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT”
Support A1+!“Tomorrow’s rally will be held. It is our constitutional right and it is not up to the criminal regime to allow or to forbid it”, announced Representative of the Pan National Movement Davit Shahnazarian noting that it will be held near the Matenadaran at 6:00 p.m.
Shahnazarian considered the authorities’ excuse to forbid the rally in Liberty Square a lame one, since it was not obviously the children’s festival that prevented the Government from authorizing the rally. “It is instigation, provocation and violation of international norms to make use of children for political purposes. They are trying to protect their miserable spirit under children’s disguise. We hope the international public will take notice of it,” Shahnazarian said.
“We have received 45 rejections from the City Hall since March 1. In fact, Municipality does not have the right to change the site of a rally. It can only offer another day or time,” emphasize Shahnazarian.
“The Pan National Movement has destroyed absolutely nothing at the rallies, whereas the authorities have managed to violate all the Articles of the Criminal Code and all the international norms.” Davit Shahnazarian did not exclude the likelihood of the Government to impede the meetings of the Pan National Movement and found it necessary to state that “There are no authorized or unauthorized rallies; there are only peaceful and violent ones.”
