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THE PROPERTY “PAKAGITS” IS CONFISCATED

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Today, at 1-2 o’clock, there was a bustle in the club of “Pakagits” daily. The Compulsory Executive Services confiscated the property of the editorial office, thus depriving the staff of the possibility of publishing the daily.

The representatives of the editorial office claim, “It is already two days the copies of “Pakagits” daily have been taken from all the news stands. Today, while participating in the NA session, I got a call that the Compulsory Executive Services are taking the property of the office out of the building. The workers of the office forbade them to take it out in the absence of the editor but they didn't listen to them,” says Agapy Haykazuni, editor of the newspaper.

We couldn't get any information from the Compulsory Executive Services on the decision according to which they confiscated the property. The director of the newspaper didn't sign the documents of confiscation either.

“According to the documents, submitted by the Compulsory Executive Services, a Daniel Tounyan demands 8 million AMD from us. I am unaware of it as I have got no court summons.

I assume the Republican Party is responsible for this action. Our newspaper displayed courage to open the brackets and here is the result,” complains Mrs. Haykazuni.

Political commentator Lili Martirosyan added, “Asked how they would comment on their biased attitude towards “Pakagits” daily, the Defense Minister and Andranik Margaryan said they are not interested in “Pakagits.” We have seen how interested they are. This gives us a perfect ground to conclude that on the eve of elections the current authorities don’t need free and independent media.”