The Human Rights activists are still waiting

“I can just welcome the Armenian president\’s amnesty proposal, for those prisoners shouldn\’t have been imprisoned in the first place. If amnesty is declared and those people are set free, it will be a step forward”, said Georgy Gogia, the representative of the Human Rights Watch organization in South Caucasus and Central Asia in the interview given to ArmInfo. “The Armenian authorities actually take certain steps to protect the right of the citizens, but we have to wait a little to assess the efficiency of those steps. President of Armenia charged the law-enforcers to investigate the March 1 2008 case with renewed vigor. I think that it means that the previous inquiry was not accurate and the public did not trust the results. Therefore, we have to wait for the results of the renovated investigation and it is very important for the public and political forces to be involved in the process. Human Rights Watch came out with a special report on the March incidents of 2008 and it is very important for us that the inquiry also gives answers to the questions raised in the report and that specific persons responsible for the incidents are punished”, stated he.