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THROWING THE BLAME FOR THE 10 MURDERS ON POLITICAL PRISONERS?

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Pan-Armenian movement representative Levon Zurabyan weighs up the Yerevan city council’s denial to hold a meeting on Northern Avenue as exclusive and award-winning. On September 29, “Republic” party political council president Aram Sargsyan’s authorized representative Artak Zeynalyan sent a notice to the Yerevan city council to hold a mass public meeting on October 17, however, according to the notice, the meeting is going to kick off at Northern Avenue and end with a march.

“This time the authorities made an award-winning allegation based on the violation of the right of proprietors; however, the law on meetings, marches and demonstrations does not state anything about that. In other words, this formulation is very weak from the juridical point of view,” said Levon Zurabyan. He also told A1+ that the denial of the Yerevan city council is being protested in the Administrative Court and the hearing will take place today.

Despite the outcome, Levon Zurabyan promised members of the Armenian National Congress that the meeting will take place on October 17 on Northern Avenue as promised.

Zurabyan also touched upon the October 2 statement made by the PACE monitoring commission. According to him, it was a late, yet important evaluation by the Council of Europe which states that imprisonment of people for political views is unacceptable.

The PACE monitoring commission members don’t refer to the prisoners as political prisoners, but that doesn’t worry Levon Zurabyan. According to him, there are currently 75 political prisoners in Armenia who are members of the opposition and the authorities are not only keeping them hostage, but are also trying to use them to solve their issues.

Perhaps they are not giving answers because everything is clear. In response to that, Levon Zurabyan said that the authorities are busy trying to hide the facts. They have sent seven cases of state appropriation to court and have attached the accusations of those seven to the descriptions of the ten murders. Thus, the authorities are trying to throw the blame for the ten murders on the seven political prisoners.

Zurabyan added that he was not making it up because authority officials had said that they couldn’t blame the murders on anyone if they released all political prisoners. So, they are keeping the prisoners hostage in order to forget about the crime.