Two pumpkins put on display outside Prosecutor's Office
Activists of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) again grouped outside the Prosecutor General's Office in Yerevan, protesting the verdict against the four jailed opposition activists - Tigran Arakelyan, David Kiramijyan, Sargis Gevorgyan and Artak Karapetyan.
The opposition activists were taken into custody after an August 2011 standoff with police officers in a Yerevan park. They were charged with hooliganism against a representative of law-enforcement body and sentenced to 2-6 years in prison.
Today the protesters carried two pumpkins, which, they said, symbolized the president and prosecutor general.
"How long will this injustice continue? People cannot endure it any longer. The poor boy [Tigran Arakelyan] has been sent to six years in prison. Can you imagine what might become of him in six years' time? He will become a wrecked man," said Vazgen Mkrtchyan, a participant of the protest action.
HAK representative Arshak Banucharyan says the group should not and will not give up and will continue to remind [like an artery] about the existence of political prisoners. "These protests are a way to remind the authorities that it is time to sober up," he said.
No one from the Prosecutor General's Office showed up to talk to the protesters.
