I consider it my duty to stand with my citizens. This is what Mayor of Kajaran Manvel Paramazyan said as he addressed the citizens of Kajaran who had gathered in front of the police station in Kapan today.
“Today we are witnessing groundless detentions and violence. We demand that everything be done by law. The police apprehended a person, beat him and then said they had apprehended him by mistake. There was a young man who could barely hold his tears back. I saw the bruises on his body. Is this the value of the revolution? What is this? We all need to fight together. The police don’t know how brave the real citizens of Kajaran are,” he said.
Before this, Governor of Syunik Province Hunan Poghosyan had tried to convince the citizens to calm down, but the citizens of Kajaran said refused to pay heed to his calls. Paramazyan stated that this is political persecution against him and that it all started a few days ago when police officers conducted searches in his apartment and his close ones’ apartments and didn’t find anything suspicious, after which they started detaining citizens for no reason and through the use of violence.
As reported earlier, the situation in Kapan is tense. Several residents of Kajaran town have gathered in front of the police building with the demand to release their fellow citizens who were apprehended and later detained and not to transport them to Yerevan. According to the information of the relatives gathered in front of the building, the apprehended were beaten at the police station, but the police refute news about use of violence. There are three detainees, and another person by the name of Nver Khachatryan was apprehended by mistake and released. There are bruises on his body. The gathered demand that the arrestees aren’t transported to Yerevan and that the investigation is conducted in Syunik Province since they fear that the arrestees will be beaten more brutally in Yerevan. They threaten to close down roads. Head of Kajaran town Manvel Paramazyan has declared that this is political repression against him, adding that a few days ago police officers conducted searches in his apartment and his close ones’ apartments, after which residents of Kajaran were detained for no reason and through the use of violence.
