Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office condemns Berdzor incident
The Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office has condemned the violence used by law-enforcement agencies of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic against the members of the Founding Parliament movement, including women, children and a journalist.
“We demand that the Armenian authorities immediately apply to their Karabakh counterparts to make the law enforcement officers responsible for the brutal beating accountable for the iniquity,” the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office said in a statement.
Police in Nagorno-Karabakh stopped on Saturday members of the Founding Parliament, a successor of the Pre-Parliament pressure group, who were holding an automobile rally to Karabakh. Among the participants were also Jirayr Sefilian, a former commander of Shushi special battalion, and other veterans of the Karabakh war, who are said to have beaten up by the Karabakh police and young men wearing special police task force uniforms. The Founding Parliament says more than a dozen participants of the automobile rally were injured in the incident that happened on the Goris-Stepanakert highway near Berdzor. Journalist Anushavan Shahnazaryan was also hospitalized with injuries in Goris.
