ArmInfo. Armenia recognizes the right to freedom of assembly and respects it. The Minister of Justice of Armenia David Harutyunyan stated at a meeting with foreign journalists on April 23.
At the same time, he stressed that the implementation of this right requires appropriate regulation. According to him, despite the fact that protesters are trampled on these days, the regulators provided by the law, the police seeks to ensure the safety of peaceful assemblies, even if they are already unauthorized.
However, according to the Minister of Justice, there are cases when law enforcement bodies terminate even peaceful assemblies if they violently violate the constitutional rights of other citizens. "Yesterday, a decision was made by the police, after which the meeting should stop, and those who did not obey this decision were subject to liability under the RA law." Such actions can be: complete paralysis of traffic, noise at night. yesterday appeals were made to hold peaceful assemblies in such a way that the rights of the others were not limited," said Harutyunyan.