Freedom House has urged Armenia’s authorities to conduct an immediate, independent investigation into the recent attack against the offices of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (HCA), in Vanadzor, and the police failure calm the crowd or intervene when the situation began to turn violent.
A crowd of about 200 people gathered outside the offices of HCA on April 16 in the third largest city to protest the screening of a series of short Azerbaijani films at an Azeri film festival, scheduled to begin the following day. As negotiations between the protest organizers and HCA officials dragged on, the crowd became restless, breaking windows and threatening further violence unless the festival organizers agreed not to screen the films. The mob finally dispersed after HCA chairman Artur Sakunts announced the cancellation of the film festival.
Armenian News
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