HCA Vanadzor Condemns Violence against Journalists
19:03, February 18, 2013 | Announcements | Freedom of Information and SpeechThe election frauds during RA Presidential elections held on February18 were accompanied with cases of violence exerted against journalists and facts of impeding their activities.
Specifically:
- Marine Kharatyan, a journalist of www.1in.am was attacked, in particular, accompanied by swear words in her address, some unknown people grabbed her camera impeding the implementation of her professional activities.
- Violence was exerted against www.lragir.am news page journalist Artak Hambardzumyan.
Such oppressions and acts of violence obviously tend to conceal election frauds.
By condemning the acts of violence exerted against the journalists and the facts over impeding the execution of their activities, we demand that the law-enforcement bodies should promptly take measures to reveal the perpetrators of such crimes and bring them to liability.
Such impunity should be stopped, otherwise, the Republic of Armenia authorities will once again be held responsible.