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.
Members of the ruling Civil Contract faction in National Assembly, Artur Hovhannisyan and Lilit Minasyan, have put forward a bill propsoing amendments to the law “On Mass Media”. The measure, if adopted, will enable government institutions to suspend the accreditation of a journalist or journalists.
