{"id":257867,"date":"2014-09-25T16:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=257867"},"modified":"2014-09-26T16:31:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T12:31:01","slug":"257867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/09\/25\/257867.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Business Owner Breaks Tables and Fires Employees Participating in Protest (PHOTO, VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe owner of Yerevan’s ‘Vosku Shuka’ (Gold Market), Vagharsh Abrahamyan, had severely chastised workers who protested against the new “Law on Turnover Tax.” On Tuesday, protesters against the new law decided to organize a larger protest today, September 24, 2014, however, the owners of the Vosku Shuka and Malatya marketplaces threatened to fire those workers who attend the protest.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOwner of the Vosku Shuka, Vagharsh Abrahamyan has broken the tables of protest participants and restricted them from doing business.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tMerchants told the journalist from Epress.am, who visited the market place, that Abrahamyan became furious after being informed that workers had not come to work in the morning, instead had attended the protest. A portion of the workers, who learned of Abrahamyan’s behavior, returned to work from the protest and were forced to give different excuses for not coming to work. The merchants, crying, explained that many of them had taken out loans and could not afford to lose their jobs.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile leaving the building, Abrahamyan was asked by an Epress.am’s journalist why he had fired the workers. He answered with “Let them go protest!”<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– Is that why you fired them? – asked the journalist.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– I punished them.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– Then how many people have you punished?\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– I haven’t counted; you go and count for yourself. I won’t let them work by me anymore.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– Have you received an order, or is it your will?\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– I’m deciding and it’s my right. Let them work according to the law.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– They have a constitutional right to protest.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– Let them do it. I’ll go do my own protest too.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– Do you belong to any political party?\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– Yes.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– Which one?\n<\/p>\n

\n\t– I can’t tell you, it’s a secret.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVideo in Armenian only.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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