Yenikomshian is an extraordinary patriot, conscientious and dedicated to civil debate and to the lawful, peaceful improvement of the country’s institutions.
The Investigative Journalists NGO (publisher of Hetq) and thirteen other media and civic organizations have signed a public statement calling for the immediate release of Levon Barseghyan, president of the Gyumri Journalists’ Asparez Club Council, who was arrested on July 27 at a demonstration outside the seized police building in Yerevan and later charged on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon.
The police rounded up almost everyone at the site except for journalists carrying credentials.
Nikolay Baghdasaryan, lawyer for jailed Founding Parliament member Alek Yenikomshian, says his client, who is blind and has one arm, is being kept in conditions deleterious to his health.
Alek Yenikomshian, a member of the opposition Founding Parliament detained by Yerevan police yesterday, was subsequently arrested and is being held at a National Security Service detention center.
As of 10 a.m. today, eleven individuals injured due to the armed takeover of a police building and subsequent incidents are being treated at various Yerevan medical centers.
Azerbaijan violated the Karabakh ceasefire 24 times last night, firing 130 rounds of small arms, this according to the NKR Ministry of Defense.
The demonstrators then marched to Khorenatsi Street, where a police building is still being held by members of Sasna Dzrer, and staged a sit-down.
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