Setting Up Tent Not Violation Of Public Order – Armenian Ombudsman

SETTING UP TENT NOT VIOLATION OF PUBLIC ORDER – ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN

Tert.am
15:21 ~U 14.03.13

On March 21, 2011, when Heritage party Chairman Raffi Hovannisian
went on a hunger strike and wanted to set up a tent in Freedom Square,
Armenian Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Karen Andreasyan issued a
statement saying that a ban on setting up a tent was a violation of
human rights.

On March 14, 2013, Heritage party members wanted to set up a tent in
Yerevan’s Freedom Square, but the policemen did not allow them to. A
representative of Armenia’s Ombudsman arrived at the square and said
that the policemen were violating human rights.

Heritage party Spokesman Hovsep Khurshudyan referred to international
legal norms defending hunger-strikers’ right to set up tents.

According to him, in 2011, when Raffi Hovannisian was on a hunger
strike and set up a tent, numerous representatives of Armenia’s ruling
coalition said that “there was no violation of law.”