12/06/2020 14:00
State of emergency has political purpose: Arsen Babayan
Apprehending Ruben Melikyan and the others by police officers is fully illegal, member of Hayrenik party’s Board, human rights advocate Arsen Babayan told the reporters today.
“The citizens were keeping social distancing. They were warned that they were participants of rally, but there was no rally,” Babayan said.
He stressed that the current state of emergency has exclusively political purpose.
“The state of emergency has political purpose to suspend expression of such dissatisfactions,” he said.
Babayan noted that the incumbent authorities are applying dual standards from the very first day.