MEPS CONCERNED WITH ARMENIAN POLICE TREATMENT OF ACTIVISTS: PAPER
02.11.2014 15:38 epress.am
At a meeting with Armenian MPs, Members of the European Parliament
expressed concern regarding the administrative proceedings brought
against protestors in Armenia, said EU-Armenia Parliamentary
Cooperation Committee member, MP Nikol Pashinyan in conversation
with local dailyHaykakan Zhamanak. Note, Pashinyan was a member of
the delegation from Armenia in Strasbourg from Feb. 4-6.
According to Pashinyan, the matter of Armenian police launching
administrative proceedings against protestors were raised by several
members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs,
considering it incompatible with democratic countries.
The newspaper reports that according to common practice in recent
years, participants of various protest demonstrations in Yerevan
are detained by police, substantiated by the claim that protestors
allegedly committed administrative violations.
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