Health condition of bitten member of Prosperous Armenia party critical but stable - brother
09.02.2015,
14:49
Health condition of Artak Khachatryan, a member of Prosperous Armenia Party's board, is critical but stable, his brother, Artem Khachatryan, told reporters on Monday.
YEREVAN, February 9. /ARKA/. Health condition of Artak Khachatryan, a member of Prosperous Armenia Party's board, is critical but stable, his brother, Artem Khachatryan, told reporters on Monday.
He was quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying that some positive signed were already seen and special measures have been undertaken along with lung drainage to ease breathing, and this will last two or three days.
In his words, his brother has his lugs injured and ribs broken. According to the Armenian Investigation Committee, on Saturday at 12:00 local time, Artak Khachatryan was kidnapped and bitten by a group of unidentified men.
Artem Khachatryan ruled out possibility of criminal wrangles saying that his brother had no ties with criminals and oligarchs.
«He was involved in public activity over the last five years,» he said. He is a member of a movement called Kasetsum that is struggling against the amendments to the turnover tax law to which small and medium entrepreneurs are strongly opposed.
The National Assembly, responding to the government's proposal, postponed enforcement of the amendments until July 2015.
The postponement was prompted by the protests staged by SMEs. Artem Khachatryan denounced this violence not as a crime against only one person, but against the whole society.
He, however, refrained from naming suspects. Levon Torosyan and Armen Nersisyan, representatives of Kasetsum movement, said a demonstration will be staged on Monday outside the government building.
He also stressed that the movement is vigorously combating corruption and assumed that may be somebody was unhappy about this.
On Sunday, the Prosperous Armenia's board issued a statement condemning the kidnapping and denouncing it as an impudent and cynical challenge tossed to political forces and society.
«It is obvious that the political leadership of the country is responsible for what happened,» the party's members said in their statement. Prosperous Armenia, a moderate centrist liberal-leaning party, was established in April 2004 by Gagik Tsarukyan, a prominent entrepreneur.
In the 2012 parliamentary elections, the party won 36 of 131 seats in the National Assembly forming the second biggest faction here.
Over a period between 2007 and 2012 the party was a member of the ruling coalition, but now it introduces itself as an alternative political party. --0-----
