YEREVAN. – An assembly at the Armenian Genocide Memorial, and subsequently, a silent march will be held on Monday in capital city Yerevan. 

The event will be devoted to the eighth anniversary of the murder of Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul, who was shot dead on January 19, 2007 outside the office of his weekly.

A Facebook account has been opened to inform about this assembly and march. 

“The eight years from 2007 until 2015 have passed with the expectation of and the demand for justice. Furthermore, the one hundred years following [the Armenian Genocide in] 1915 also have passed with this same expectation and demand.

“This is the first public ceremony in Yerevan devoted to the memory of Hrant Dink,” the Facebook page specifically reads.