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Turkey’s dictator Erdogan slashes through police force, 12,801 police officers suspended

October 4, 2016 By administrator

police-suspendedTurkey has suspended 12,801 police officers from duty over suspected ties with US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of having masterminded a July coup in the country.

The country’s law enforcement authorities announced the suspensions on Tuesday, saying they had followed an investigation of the police force by the Interior Ministry.

A day earlier, Ankara had also extended by three more months a state of emergency it brought into force after the failed coup.

“The decision on continuing the state of emergency [is] beginning on October 19,” said Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesman Numan Kurtulmus.

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Chief of Yerevan Police relieved of his duties

August 8, 2016 By administrator

yerevan police-headYEREVAN. – Chief of Yerevan Police, Lieutenant General Ashot Karapetyan was relieved of his duties on Monday. Karapetyan was sacked upon the order of the Armenian Chief of Police Vladimir Gasparyan, the police press-service reports.

As a result of the internal investigation in the Armenian police on occasion of the incidents in Yerevan’s Khorenatsi street and Sari Tagh district, a number of its workers, including Ashot Karapetyan, were fined. Karapetyan had also received a strict warning.

 

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Criminal investigation into Yerevan police violence launched

August 4, 2016 By administrator

investigationThe Special Investigative Service instigated a criminal case over the police’s use of violence against demonstrators and journalists during the Yerevan police station siege, Armenian media reports.

According to the Special Investigative Service, the police exceeded authority “in the prejudice of service or deliberately”. In particular, the matter concerns the use of riot control devices in Yerevan’s Khorenatsi Street and Sari Tagh districts, violence against the detainees and journalists and hindering the meetings of lawyers and their defendants.

The Service also urges the persons injured in the police actions to provide the investigative body with facts on violation of laws by the law-enforcers.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: investigation, police, Turkey: Violence escalating ahead of local elections, Violence, Yerevan

Condition of wounded Armenian armed group member and his son remains critical but stable

July 27, 2016 By administrator

wounded-criticalYEREVAN. – As of 10 a.m, 14 people — six police officers and three armed group members — receive treatment at hospitals as a result of the armed clash and ensuing developments in the territory of the seized police regiment in Yerevan.

The Health Ministry representatives told Armenian News – NEWS.am that one law enforcement officer and two armed group members were brought to Yerevan’s Erebouni Medical Center with firearm wounds as a result of the night shootout. After undergoing an operation, the wounded armed group members have been placed in the intensive care unit.  Their condition is critical but stable.

The hospitalized policeman is currently in a hospital ward; his condition is satisfactory.

The condition of the policeman hospitalized on July 17 is critical but stable, obvious positive dynamics being observed.

Necessary medical assistance is provided to the wounded in all the hospitals.

Two of the armed group members have been moved to a penitentiary clinic. None of the rally participants has so far sought medical assistance in hospitals.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Armenia, police, wounded

Armenia’s authorities are digging their own grave – Hayk Martirosyan

July 26, 2016 By administrator

expertIn an interview with Tert.am, Doctor of Political Science Hayk Martirosyan spoke of the July 17 armed attack on a police building in Yerevan, resultant domestic political changes in Armenia, relations between political forces and society and public demand issued in Yerevan’s Khorenatsi street and other issues.

Mr Martirosyan, Armenia’s political forces were preparing for parliamentary elections scheduled for next year. Political parties were established, and political propaganda was under way. How much has the Sasna Tsrer group’s activities changed the game for political forces?

The group’s actions have complicated the situation for Armenia’s authorities. Society is now demonstrating string trends to tension, and political parties have proved their actual absence. The so called intellectuals moving in the ruling circles have shown their true worth as well. Armenia’s political arena is empty, while the only ruling political force is deeply hated. In the previous state of affair, Armenia’s authorities had to spare no effort to rig elections, whereas now they have to resort to reprisals. With discontent with you growing, and you lacking intellect and hardly tolerated, overtly doing what you once tried to conceal. And then you are overthrown because no one is going to tolerate more.

Political forces have a task of coming to or approaching power. How have the Sasna Tserer group’s actions influenced the authorities? What changes will authorities make?

We should realize that one either has intellect and knowledge or has not any. If the former, you can be capable of making right assessments and changes. Since it lacks in this particular case, no favorable expectations should be held. Armenia’s authorities are digging their own grave, and Sasna Tsrer is only of help to them.

What trends were observed in the public-political forces relations after July 17?

A total break, revelation and mutual exclusion. The political scene is exhausted, discredited and destroyed. What we see in Armenia is, as a matter of fact, the Communist-style one party model.

Mr Martirosyan, in the run-up to July 17, there was public discontent in the social media and on other platforms over the absence of a [political] force or leader ruling the crowd. [The Civil Contract party’s leader,] Nikol Pashinyan, made such attempt, but the society wouldn’t accept anyone. What public demand is after all being sketched now?

I find it hard to give an answer. If the [political forces] having adherents are dispersed and driven out of square, the street, which isn’t crowded as it is, will look even emptier. Pashinyan enjoys publicity, at least at the moment, so he is still able to attract people despite his party-backed agenda. Evidently, people reject this government, but they do not take to the streets for now to raise their voice. So to disperse the [political forces] at the moment would mean keeping the squares empty. Political analysts cannot fill the existing vacuum. Whether analysts or politicians, if people follow all this through computers at home their demands too, will be heard from their bedrooms.

How and to what extent did they manage or fail to make the situation work to their own advantage?

All political forces guide themselves by their own interests. What matters is to what extent the interests of the nation and the people are present there. What we hear in the Khorenatsi [street] is the interest of the people’s complaint. But the political forces aren’t there – just as they are absent from everywhere else. Whenever people just take to the streets to raise their demand, real changes become possible. Political forces then follow the people instead of proposing agendas.  We do not have situations like this in Armenia. It may be possible sometime in the future, but today, we simply don’t have it.

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Armenia’s National Security Service pledges ‘tougher action’ against armed group

July 26, 2016 By administrator

national-securityIn defiance of all the warnings against further offences, the armed group that occupied a police building in Yerevan continue actions threatening the life and health of law-enforcers and causing property damage, Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) says in a statement. 
Warning of the group’s “increasingly hazardous conduct spiraling out of control”, the NSS promises to take tougher action “to avert further offenses”.
“Being well-aware of the criminal band’s intentions and prearranged offensive conduct, we warn of our plan to take return action to neutralize all the threats to our population’s life and health,” reads the statement.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: hostage, police, Yerevan

Thousands March In Support Of Gunmen In Yerevan

July 25, 2016 By administrator

police marchBy RFE/RL’s Armenian Service

July 25, 2016

Thousands of demonstrators were marching in Yerevan late on July 25 in support of a group of gunmen who have occupied an Armenian police station for more than a week.

The demonstrators chanted “unity” and called for bystanders to join them — swelling their numbers as the march progressed along the streets of the Armenian capital and the demonstrators arrived at Yerevan’s central Republic Square.

It was the largest gathering of support for the gunmen since the crisis began on July 17.

Watch A Live Feed Of The Protest

The march began on July 25 after military helicopters were seen flying over the occupied police building.

The presence of the helicopters prompted speculation that a military raid against the gunmen was imminent.

The gunmen at the police station set a police van on fire near the building on July 25.

Meanwhile, Armenian law enforcement agencies called on the gunmen not to take any steps that would “risk the lives of citizens or that stir up tensions.”

One police officer was killed on July 17 when the gunmen, linked to the radical Founding Parliament opposition movement, stormed into the Erebuni police station.

The gunmen took seven police officers as hostages but released the last of them on July 23 after negotiations with a senior officer in Armenia’s armed forces.

The gunmen are members of a little-known group called Sasna Tsrer, dubbed by some the Daredevils of Sassoun, which is loyal to Founding Parliament’s leader Zhirayr Sefilian.

They say they have no intention of laying down their weapons until their demands are met.

Those demands include the resignation of President Serzh Sarkisian and the release of Sefilian, who was arrested along with six of his supporters on June 20 on illegal weapons charges.

Police initially accused Sefilian of preparing a plot to seize government buildings and telecommunication facilities in Yerevan.

Most of Sefilian’s supporters in Sasna Tsrer are veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Founding Parliament is sharply critical of the way Armenia’s government has dealt with the long-running conflict over Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory that both Armenia and Azerbaijan claim.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: march, police, thousand, Yerevan

Armenia president speaks about seizure of police headquarters

July 22, 2016 By administrator

armenian presidentYEREVAN. – President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on Friday chaired consultations with the participation of national security service, police, justice ministry representatives and investigators to discuss seizure of the police regiment in Yerevan.

President Sargsyan noted importance of doing everything for a peaceful solution to the crisis. The Armenian leader called to draw lessons from the difficult situation we are all faced with.

During the meeting, he expressed condolences to the family of killed Colonel Arthur Vanoyan.

The Armenian leader added that the idea to solve problems through violence and force is very dangerous and is fraught with serious consequences for the entire country.

“I call on the militia who seized the police regiment to display restraint and not to threaten others’ lives by their provocative actions,” he said, calling to release the hostages and to surrender their weapons.

The President warned all those who are dissatisfied with the reality against “undermining the foundations of our statehood.”

“I urge all members of our society to exercise their political and civil rights exclusively in a peaceful way and within the law,” Sargsyan said.

Everyone must realize the real threats that provocations and extremal steps may contain.

President urged the representatives of the law enforcement agencies to exercise restraint and act “within the rule of law”.  He assured that the government would act patiently “without making society a hostage”, and would not act “in a traditional way for such situations”.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Armenian, police, president, Speaks

Police disperse Yerevan protesters after violent night

July 21, 2016 By administrator

hostage 21 dayPolice in Yerevan on Thursday, July 21 dispersed protesters after detaining dozens of others following a night of violent clashes over a four-day hostage standoff.

The armed group that seized a police HQ and took everyone inside hostage are members of the Sasna Tsrer movement. One police officer was killed, and three more were wounded in a shootout that broke as the members of the group hit the gates of the police department with a Ural track. Several captives have been set free so far.The hostages include Armenia’s deputy police chief General Major Vardan Eghiazaryan and Yerevan deputy police chief Colonel Valeri Osipyan.The group demand the release of Jirair Sefilian, the founder of the Founding Parliament who was arrested on June 20, as he and a group of people had planned to seize premises and communication facilities, including the Yerevan TV tower.

At least 51 people, including 25 police were wounded Wednesday night, the health ministry said, after stone-throwing protesters attacked officers deployed outside the seized police building.

Police in turn, fired tear gas into the crowd.

The protest continued into the early hours of Thursday as some 2,000 protesters built barricades in front of the cordons of the police.

Early in the morning, riot police dispersed the crowd beating and arresting scores of demonstrators.

At least 15 opposition politicians from the moderate Civil Contract party were arrested, the party leader, MP Nikol Pashinyan, told journalists.

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EU reacts to Yerevan police standoff, calls for restraint by police

July 21, 2016 By administrator

eu reactThe European Union on Thursday, July 21 commented on the recent situation in Yerevan following an armed police station takeover, stating that the use of force to achieve political change is unacceptable.

An armed group seized a police HQ and took everyone inside hostage. They are members of the Sasna Tsrer movement. One police officer was killed, and three more were wounded in a shootout that broke as the members of the group hit the gates of the police department with a Ural track. Several captives have been set free so far. The hostages include Armenia’s deputy police chief General Major Vardan Eghiazaryan and Yerevan deputy police chief Colonel Valeri Osipyan. The group demand the release of Jirair Sefilian, the founder of the Founding Parliament who was arrested on June 20, as he and a group of people had planned to seize premises and communication facilities, including the Yerevan TV tower.

“With concern we note reports on excessive use of force and mass arrests by the police,” the Union’s delegation to Armenia said in a statement.

“In this regard, we call on the authorities to observe the principle of proportionality in handling public rallies, including both peaceful and violent gatherings. Likewise, demonstrators need to refrain from violence as they make use of their civil rights.”

“We also take note of the statements issued by the Ombudsman and call for a full investigation of all cases of alleged wrongdoing by the police, including mistreatment, denial of access to lawyers and medical care,” the statement went on to say.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: EU, police, reacts, standoff, Yerevan

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