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Activists have a right to pitch a tent in Mashtots Park. Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan came to such a conclusion in his statement. In its turn, “We Are This City’s Owners” Civic Initiative qualified the police actions in Mashtots Park as anticonstitutional. “Police applied physical force towards the participants of peaceful demonstration who were fairly protesting for the support of Mashtots Park…the police tore the tent apart, confiscated all the personal possessions, such as clothes, blankets, glasses, handbags and overcoats…”
The police carried out their unlawful actions in the dark, suddenly and without any warnings…Afterwards the police circulated an arbitrary and subjective statement in regards what had happened...
Despite the string-arm tactics that the police applied, the citizens decided to continue their peaceful protest demonstration unless the pavilions in Mashtots Park are dismantled and those responsible for these unlawful actions are held liable...
We are applying the Public Prosecutor and Head of Special Criminal Investigation Department, and Police Chief to carry out internal investigation of the actions of the policemen who were on duty in Mashtots Park and to hold liable those who gave and implemented such an unlawful order,” says the statement of the civic initiative.
March 15, 2012 at 13:36