The members of public-political initiatives still challenge the legality of forbiding the mass meeting planned on March 23.
The members of «Alternative» public-political intiatives have turned to the mayor of Yerevan in time to give them a permit to hold a mass meeting in the Square of Freedom. The Municipality refused the initiators to hold a mass meeting. The representatives of «Alternative» turned to the Court of First Instance of Center and Nork-Marash communities to challenge the legality of that refusal. The Court had refused to institute a suit against the Municipality. And though the above mentioned mass meeting took place just in the
It seems at the first sight that the discussion of the discussion of the suit was meaningless as the mass meeting was held but the representatives of «Alternative» explained. In Nikol Pashinyan\’s opinion « first of all to prove that the citizen has no right to defend its rights, there is no effective system to defend the rights. In Vahagn Khachatryan\’s words their wanted to find out whether the Court of Appeal was able to make a fair decree. In V. Khachatryan’s words if the Court of Appeal satisfies the suit of the representatives of “Alternative”, the Municipality and the Court of First Instance will realize that their decrees are illegal. Finally there is a problem of prior case. The use of prior cases is a good method in Armenia. I\’m sure we\’ll have to turn to the Municipality again, they\’ll refuse again, but we\’ll have a prior case for their decrees».
In Petros Makeyan\’s opinion, they don\’t solve the problem of holding mass meeting, as our interlocutor told: «we held our mass meeting that day. We try to prevent the circle of illegalities and will take every legal step». P. Makeyan also noticed that the legal ways have no future in
Unfortunately, the sitting was postponed because of the absence of the representative from the Municipality. The next sitting will be held on 27 July.