Participants in the civic movement "We pay 100 drams" are displeased with the fact that the Police are not in a hurry to detect the persons guilty of physical violence against the activists
As an activist Ruzanna Grigoryan said at today's press-conference, since the end of July, when they started the movement against the transport fare hike, 10 cases of violence against activists have been fixed. She did not rule out that criminal elements could use violence, but the Police did not make answerable those which were guilty for the cases of violence. Moreover, policemen themselves hinder holding of peaceful protest actions and detained activists without any legal basis.
She recalled that the right for holding of peaceful actions is fixed in the Constitution of Armenia. However, this point is directly broken, she said and added that sometimes policemen themselves used force against activists, for instance, against Argishti Kiviryan. As a result, repressions reached the situation when citizens cannot go to the street to protect their rights, she said.