Statement of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor
00:00, March 23, 2010 | Announcements | Right to Fair Trial, Right to LifeOn March 19, 2010, a statement was placed on the website of the human rights organization International Federation for Human Rights /FIDH/ related to fair trial in Armenia, which was signed on behalf of the organizations “Civil Society Institute”, “Armenian Helsinki Committee”, “HCA Vanadzor office”, “Collaboration for Democracy” and “Against Violation of Law.”
Referring to the events of 2008 March 1 and 2, it was mentioned in the statement that ten people had been killed and 200 had been injured due to clashes.
With this statement, HCA Vanadzor announces that we do not agree with the mentioned formulation and as we have already mentioned for many times in different statements, the citizens had been killed by the regime as a consequence of illegal use of weapon.
With this statement, we state that HCA Vanadzor did not get the text before its publication, it does not agree with the formulation mentioned in the text and is taking back its signature because of the abovementioned reasons.
Coordinator of organization
A. Sakunts