The workers of the Civilitas Foundation organized a protest outside the Attorney General’s Office today demanding to stop persecution of the Civilitas Foundation and Vartan Oskanian and handed an appeal to stop persecution with citizens’ signatures to the Attorney General.
“We demand justice in our country. The persecution of the Civilitas Foundation and its founder Vartan Oskanian testify to the inability of democracy in Armenia and its gradual weakening. This case is not the first precedent; it is another manifestation of permissiveness in our country. This is not an issue of one politician, one organization, this proves the unhealthiness of legal, political and all fields in the country,” Seda Grigoryan, a worker of the foundation said.
Tatul Hakobyan, a journalist of the Orakarg newspaper, also added that President Serzh Sargsyan and the team advising him had a strong desire that both Civilitas and news agencies
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operating under its auspices were closed as soon as possible, “Such projects may be a start of a bigger process and the government will try to nip in the bud using rigorous methods. We will try not to allow.”
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