The government of the Republic of Armenia has not conducted a complete investigation on the cases of dead and injured, as a result of clashes and inadequate use of force against the protesters in March 2008. The appropriate investigation on the claims of brutal treatment at the police station has not been conducted either. The 2011 annual report of the Civil Society Institute represented to journalists today mentions this.
The report is about the protection of human rights activists and there is a reference to the arrests of Ani Gevorgyan, a journalist of the Armenian Times, her brother Sargis Gevorgyan and oppositionist Davit Kiramijyan, the charges pressed against environmentalist Mariam Sukhudyan that took place after the video about sexual assaults was shown on “Haylur”, as well as a case launched against Mushegh Shushanyan “for contempt of court”, which he “deserved” for defending 5 people who participated in the March events and were arrested.
According to Artak Kirakosyan, a secretary of the International Federation for Human Rights, “We have cases, e.g. Levon Gulyan’s case, testifying that we don’t have the solution to depriving of the right to life, for which the state is responsible, and it threatens our whole statehood. They say Gulyan died, they conceal that, put aside and continue working, it shouldn’t be so.”
The Secretary General of FIDH has no hope that the human rights will not be violated at the upcoming election, even in the case of the most optimistic scenario, “The pre-election period will show what situation we will have during the election and after the election. Today we are facing a challenge, it is clear for everyone that it cannot help but continue and the same thing will repeat.”
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