“It is too late to talk about international pressure to return the captives today. When the territories were returned after the signing of the November 9 declaration, but the confirmed prisoners were not repatriated, the human rights organizations, including local NGOs, began to make a fuss. Instead of supporting these efforts, the Armenian authorities criticized or spread false information to the families of the prisoners that the international publicization of the issue would harm the process, the interests of the captive men,” said the representative of the Armenian prisoners at the ECHR, adding that only two years later that there were no threats, moreover, the opposite actions of the Armenian authorities contributed to the longer delay of their repatriation process.
European Council President Charles Michel released a statement after hosting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for trilateral talks in Brussels.
Police are using unprecedented brute force against violent protesters who resumed early this morning, using violence – bodily serious injuries to the participants of the peaceful actions. The Red Berets (the special forces of the RA Police) beat one of the protesters thus the citizen fainted because of the blow.
The vice president of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Armen Ashotyan was detained at the intersection of Moskovyan and Teryan streets by using brute force. As it is known, this morning the opposition started large-scale peaceful disobedience in the streets of Yerevan.
Madam Ambassador, is this what you are promoting in Armenia. Lilit Beglaryan to Andrea Wiktorin.
For the stateless servile creatures, the cost of peace is the homage paid to the enemy, in the abandonment of national values and national identity, in an unequivocal acceptance of the enemy’s all demands.
168.am correspondent these days sent few questions to Andrea Wiktorin, Ambassador, Head of the European Union Delegation to Armenia.
We also contacted the Human Rights Defender’s Office. We were told they would respond after reviewing the videos. We will publish the Human Rights Defender’s opinion on the incident and on the duties of the mentioned groups and the police officers as soon as we get it.
As part of the peaceful protests and disobedience of the opposition that started this morning, the representatives of law enforcement bodies and power structures used disproportionate force to hinder the activities of many journalists and cameramen covering the events, grossly violating their rights. Both ordinary and special police force officers take part in these operations. […]
The 107th anniversary of the first ever genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide, is approaching. Over a century has passed since that tragic period, but the international community has not completely condemned the crime so far, has not either given an unbiased legal assessment to the events, leaving the perpetrators unpunished.
