PREPARATIONS FOR UPCOMING RALLY IN VANADZOR
Support A1+!The local authorities have started exerting pressure on the residents of Vanadzor in order to decrease the number of participants in tomorrow’s rally due at 5 p.m., informs Arthur Sakunts, Coordinator of Vanadzor Office of the Helsinki Association.
“The local authorities are using bureaucratic methods. The Regional Council of Lori has held a consultation with participation of heads of departments. The topic for discussing was how to lower the number of participants in the rally. Director of the first medical division has ordered all his associates not to take part in the rally. The local police department has called people conditionally detained for 1 March events and warned them not to partake in the rally,” Sakunts informs.
He considers that Armenian authorities have the same face and purpose throughout the country.
At his visit to Yerevan Sakunts also informed that local Mass Media of the Lori Region were reluctant to notify the residents of the upcoming rally, so the opposition had to use handouts.
