Levon Barseghyan, the head of the Gyumri Journalists’ Club Asparez, informed that his Facebook page was supervised by the Attorney General’s Office. In this regard, Sona Truzyan, the spokesperson for the Attorney General of the Republic of Armenia, explained to www.aravot.am: “This is nonsense. There was a monitoring in the period preceding the election, and nothing was done secretly. Everything was public, and information about that was put on the website. Websites were monitored during the election, and there was a quick response to all the statements about election bribes and crimes.” In response to our question
whether it would have been under monitoring, if the same statement had been on my page, Sona Truzyan said that no one’s Facebook page was supervised. “We don’t have so many resources to monitor social networks. Levon Barseghyan’s statement was put on one of the websites. There was information in that statement that election bribes were handed out, and naturally, that statement ought to interest the police. I am more than convinced that if the police hadn’t investigated, they could have accused law-enforcement bodies of not investigating the reports of crimes. As a result of the monitoring, the publications of the mass media were investigated. Cases were opened based on those, and the guilty were held accountable. There are cases that are in court now.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
