Public Demands to Release the Journalist Activate
On November 16, when editors and journalists of more than a dozen of media outlets organized a protest action and demanded to release the chief editor of “Haykakan Zhamanak” daily (Armenian Times) Nikol Pashinyan, some thought that this action would soon be forgotten. However, this was only the beginning of dozens of events held one after another to protect Nikol.
In just two weeks collection of signatures with the same demand was started and protest actions were held in Yerevan by dozens of artists, culture activists, academicians and associate members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Demands for the release of the journalist were activated after his statement made in “Kosh” penitentiary according to which he was tortured when sleeping at night on November 11 in jail by unknown people. Pashinyan’s statement was denied by the criminal department of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia. However, his defenders argued that it took place and that Pashinyan’s life is under threat.
A statement was disseminated also by the chairmеn of Writers’ Union of Armenia Levon Ananyan, of Theatre Workers’ Union of Armenia Hakob Ghazanchyan and of Architects’ Union of Armenia Mkrtich Minasyan.
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