Women’s Demonstration

ArmInfo reports on Saturday’s march mainly by women to the Council of Public TV & Radio Company to protest the lack of coverage of this week’s post-election demonstrations by former president and candidate Levon Ter-Petrossian.

The protesters, which numbered at least two thousand, handed in a letter demanding that the heads of Public TV and Radio resign.

As ArmInfo correspondent reports, leader of Social and Democratic “Hnchakyan” party Lyudmila Sarkisyan and press-secretary of People’s Party of Armenia Ruzan Khachatryan handed over the statement with demands of the opposition to the head of administration of Public TV and Radio Company Armen Andreasyan. Ter-Petrosyan’s supporters demand “to broadcast impartial and real-time information at public TV and radio about the protest actions that started after rigging of the presidential election results.

The second demand of oppositionists is giving TV air to the candidate for president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and his supporters. The leader of “Hnchakyan” party L. Sarkisyan said: hundreds of thousands people voted, which support public TV and radio company by means of their tax payments. At present constitutional right of people to get information about the events in the republic is violated. The oppositionists also said they will demand resignation of chairman of Public TV and Radio Company Council Aleksan Harutyunyan if their demands are not fulfilled immediately.

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