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  Also, they pushed and used bad words towards girls who participated at the election campaign. They went away only after Davit Matevosyan, head of the election headquarter phoned the police. The young activists were taken to hospital with many injuries of face and head. According to witnesses the activists were beaten by «the guys of that residential area», among them was a head of that residential area Davit Simonyan. They support the candidate from No. 10 constituency of Yerevan Ara Simonyan.

During the trial Samvel Harutyunyan, the official of the Central Police Department again gave testimonies, which contradicted both the testimonies of victims and the testimonies he gave during the pre-investigation stage. During the trial he stated that he did not see how A. Hakobyan hit or threw a cigarette at the policemen, also he told the court that he did not witness any strange scene when they entered A. Hakobyan’s apartment. According to the policemen testimonies they visited A. Hakobyan at his place on June 05 to give him the summons, afterwards he hit them. As a result two policemen…

According to the testimonies of those policemen on June 05 they visited A. Hakobyan at his apartment in order to give him the summons, but the latter was drunk, used bad words towards them, then he signed the paper on the wrong place and afterwards hit them. As a result two policemen came to help their collogues and accompanied him to the police department. According to the policemen testimonies they did not hit A. Hakobyan. A. Hakobyan in his turn requested them to give answer to the questions regarding the bumps on his head. The policeman Vahe Badalyan answered that A. Hakobyan’s may hit h…

This is the first case in Armenia when a human rights defender is detained. It came as a warning sign that the Armenian authorities have now started to exert the pressure on human rights defenders after having clamped down on the political opposition and the critical media. On June 12 the members of the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders protested against the unlawful and ill-grounded detention of Arshaluys Hakobyan in the Statement addressing the President of the Republic of Armenia Serj Sargsyan, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Gevorg Danielyan, Prosecution Ge…

  The commencement of a criminal case instituted against Mariam Sukhudyan, one of the leaders of ecological movement is another vivid manifestation of policy of impatience towards the dissidence. We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations of Armenia which are members of South Caucasian Network of Human Rights Defenders demand the competent bodies to stop the criminal case instituted against Mariam Sukhudyan, demand the competent bodies to punish the ones who instituted the criminal case address the international organizations with a request to support our demands and exert pressure on…

Now she is accused of Article 333, part 1, point 3 of the Criminal Code of Armenia (False Denunciation) which provides up to 5 years of imprisonment. On November 2008 Haylur program (National TV Station of Armenia) broadcast a video material about the morals of Nubarashen Special School No. 11, particularly about sexual harassments done by teacher Levon Avagyan toward children of the school. However, an accusation is brought against the video operator of that video material Mariam Sukhudyan. A day later Mariam and her friends were called to the Investigation Department of Erebuni district in…

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Urgent Appeal against Detention of Hakobyan

Remember, on July 01, 2009 T. Arakelyan underwent beatings in Abovian street while distributing flyers informing about the rally of the Armenian National Congress. T. Arakelyan was hit in the head with a pistol handle. And then he was taken to hospital of Nor Nork by ambulance together with two other beaten young activists.