March in defense of political prisoners
December 10 marks Human Rights Day and on that day at 1 p.m. the RA Committee on Defense of Political Prisoners and Persecuted will hold a march from the M. Saryan statue to say NO to injustice and illegal acts.
"Contrary to the challenges that face Armenia day after day, as well as the alerts of human rights defense organizations and individuals and the public opinion, the regime that seized power in Armenia is doing everything to put an end to the country's return to the democratic course," as stated in the statement by the RA Committee on Defense of Political Prisoners and Persecuted.
"Our fellow political prisoners who have fought for Armenia's freedom and democracy will also celebrate this day in their prison cells. On this day, we will be forced to register that a group of criminals have turned the Independent Armenia of our dreams into a jailhouse where we are deprived of fair trial, as well as the rights to vote and be elected, freely receive and disperse information.
It is clear that we will not get our rights back without a consistent struggle and if we don't want our children to live in prison, we must struggle now and constantly."
The primary demands of the demonstrators are the immediate release of all RA political prisoners and punishment of those who organized the massacres of peaceful demonstrators on March 1, 2008.
