Spotlight: Armenia Attacks Freedom of Assembly
Armenia: Police violence against protesters, journalists
Police in Armenia used force to disperse a largely peaceful protest on June 23, 2015, raising concerns about potential human rights violations.
Police in Armenia used force to disperse a largely peaceful protest on June 23, 2015, raising concerns about potential human rights violations.
On 23 June 2014, journalists were attacked by police as they waited outside a police station in the Yerevan district of Kentron for the release of protesters arrested earlier in the day.
Human Rights Watch documented attacks against five activists in three separate incidents in the past three weeks. In each case, unidentified men in civilian clothes set upon individual demonstrators late at night after they left protest sites in Yerevan.
As Armenia prepares for a presidential election on February 18, the international community should direct its attention to a recent proposal by a presidential advisory body that—if implemented—would drastically increase government control over civil society in the country.
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