{"id":269732,"date":"2015-12-03T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=269732"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:44:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:44:20","slug":"parents-of-dead-soldiers-are-not-to-be-seen-by-delegation-expected-at-presidential-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/03\/parents-of-dead-soldiers-are-not-to-be-seen-by-delegation-expected-at-presidential-residence.html","title":{"rendered":"Parents of Dead Soldiers ‘Are Not to Be Seen’ by Delegation Expected at Presidential Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThursday afternoon Nana Muradyan and Irina Ghazaryan<\/span><\/a>, the mothers two Armenian soldiers who died in the army in non-combat conditions, were once again prohibited by law enforcement officers from walking past the gates of the Armenian President's residence.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week the women were allowed to stand in front of the gates only after the intervention<\/span><\/a> of Armenia's human rights defender's staffers. Today, however, the police were adament that the parents should not approach the residence; they backed the decision up by citing “service needs.” Later they added that a delegation was expected at the presidential palace, and the mothers could not stand in front of the gates.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t“Basically, we are not to be seen by this delegation,” Irina Ghazaryan commented.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNana Muradyan argued that they only wanted to pass by the gates: “We'll just stand there for a minute so that Serzh Sargsyan sees we are going to keep coming here.”\n<\/p>\n

\n\tUpon receiving a categorical rejection from the officers, Muradyan and Ghazaryan walked onto the carriageway which resulted in a skirmish with the police, and Irina Ghazaryan was dragged to the opposite sidewalk.\n<\/p>\n

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