Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) seriously condemns violence against the opposition journalist, Naira Zohrabyan, Secretary of PAP Faction in the Parliament, told ArmInfo, Thursday.
To recall, on April 23 ANC disseminated a statement saying that in the course of Mayor Taron Margaryan's meeting with voters in the Nor Nork Community, Aram Papyan, a member of the given community and the event organizer and his supporters beat up an opposition journalist Hakob Karapetyan. They seized the camera of the journalist and deleted the record. The journalist got bodily harms. However, Hakobyan Managed to take the photo of Aram Papyan, who was beating him. Papyan is a member of the current Elders' Council and candidate of the Republican Party to the future Elders' Council of Yerevan. ANC reports that police officers did not respond to the incident.
Zohrabyan said that as a parliamentarian, citizen and former journalist, she considers inadmissible any obstacles to activity of journalists. She said that very often some journalists who are charged 'from above' to make provocations attend PAP's meetings with voters. However, even in such situations, PAP does its best to prevent any conflicts or obstacles to activity of those journalists.
"In the given case, I am sure that iLur.am correspondent would not make provocations. Various criminal elements are behind the incident. Such incidents are inadmissible as they once again demonstrate the difference between the statements on tolerance and objective reality," Zohrabyan said.