THEY DEMANDED FREEDOM
Support A1+!Hundreds of people gathered near the President’s residence today and demanded to set free coordinator of the initiative “Protection of Liberated Lands” Zhirayr Sefilyan and member of the party “Fatherhood and Honor” Vardan Malkhasyan. They were arrested on December 10 and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment.
Representatives of the “Union of Armenian Volunteers”, “Fatherhood and Homeland”, “New Times party” and several NGOs, carrying posters saying “NO to unpunished violence” and “Give citizenship to Zhirayr Sefilyan”, walked from Mergelyan park along Baghramyan avenue towards the building of the National Security Service.
The National Security Service did not receive the participants of the protest action. “We in fact did not even apply to be received”, said Armen Yeghyan, member of the committee supporting Zhirayr Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan. According to him, the number of the participants of the protest action would have been greater if it hadn’t been for the bad weather. Precisely because of it the march did not continue to the Republic Square, as previously announced.
According to Armen Yeghyan, they are waiting for the trial of Sefilyan in the Court of Cassation next week.
