Police forced 75-year-old woman off tent
A relative of Armenian statesman Garegin Nzhdeh, has been staging a strike outside the Presidential residence for 160 days.
75-year-old Emma Sahakyan, the daughter of Nzhdeh's brother, asks Serzh Sargsyan to restore justice in order to be able to return to her apartment lost through fraud.
The desperate woman has not received any response from Serzh Sargsyan during the five-month-long sit-in and 21-day hunger strike. Emma Sahakyan says not a single official came to her to inquire about the reasons of the protest although she has sent numerous letters to the country's president and prime minister. The woman once tried to stop Serzh Sargsyan's convoy but the police officers roughly pushed her aside.
Because of the weather changes the 75-year-old woman has developed serious health problems. She has sent a letter to the Yerevan Mayor asking the Municipality's permission to erect a tent in the area, but has not received any answer.
In despair, the woman decided to spend the night in a tent without permission.
"A policeman named Surik came, broke the tent and forced me off," she tells. The woman later informed Mayor Taron Margaryan about the incident but the official said the matter was not beyond his jurisdictions.
