LOS ANGELES. – A crowd gathered outside the Los Angeles Consulate General of Armenia on Friday to protest, once again, the murder of Vahe Avetyan and deliver a series of demands to the Government of Armenia, Asbarez informs.

One of the participants was Avetyan’s cousin. He made a heartfelt plea that the laws of the land be implemented and simple justice be served upon those who murdered his relative.

The approximately hour-long protest drew a photographer from the Glendale News Press and the Glendale police department.

Consulate staff allowed only one person to enter the building from among the demonstrators to deliver the demands, which are:

1. An emergency session of Armenia’s National Assembly be convened.

2. The Prosecutor General indict Ruben Hayrapetyan as a codefendant in the Avetyan murder case.

3. Hayrapetyan be dismissed from the National Assembly for violating its rules prohibiting entrepreneurial activity by sitting Deputies.

4. An impartial investigation be conducted of Hayrapetyan’s offenses and Avetyan’s murder.

5. Hayrapetyan be dismissed from his post as President of the Football Federation of Armenia.

Future protests will be held at the same location on Sundays at 1pm, with a special demonstration is planned for Avetyan’s Forty Day memorial.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an incident had occurred at capital city Yerevan’s Harsnaqar Restaurant on June 17, where several military doctors including Edgar Mikoyan, Arkadi Aghajanyan, Garik Soghomonyan, Artak Bayadyan and Vahe Avetyan were brutally beaten by Hayrapetyan’s security personnel. And Vahe Avetyan died in hospital on June 29. A criminal case is launched and the Police have detained six people.

The Restaurant’s owner is senior ruling party MP, Football Federation of Armenia President, and businessman Ruben Hayrapetyan, who on July 3 formally submitted his resignation from his parliamentary seat.