Administrative court in Armenia removes ban on rallies under martial law
27.11.2020,
19:32
The administrative court in Armenia has removed today the ban on holding rallies under martial law.
YEREVAN, November 27. /ARKA/. The administrative court in Armenia has removed today the ban on holding rallies under martial law. The news was announced by a senior member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) party Artsvik Minasyan in a Facebook post.
“I would like to inform you that we had applied to the court with a petition to lift the ban on holding rallies in these conditions. Recently, the court granted our petition. The court's ruling has removed the ban imposed by the illegal government,” Minasyan wrote.
Minasyan stressed that from now on, no one has the right to prohibit the organization, holding and participation in rallies.
On November 26 Armenia's National Assembly voted down a motion proposed by the opposition Bright Armenia to abolish the martial law, declared on September 27 after Azerbaijan attacked Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).
From September 27 to November 9, Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons.
On November 9, the leaders of the Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities in Artsakh. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin are handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.
A Russian peacekeeping contingent has been deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and adjacent regions, prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead are being exchanged.--0-
“I would like to inform you that we had applied to the court with a petition to lift the ban on holding rallies in these conditions. Recently, the court granted our petition. The court's ruling has removed the ban imposed by the illegal government,” Minasyan wrote.
Minasyan stressed that from now on, no one has the right to prohibit the organization, holding and participation in rallies.
On November 26 Armenia's National Assembly voted down a motion proposed by the opposition Bright Armenia to abolish the martial law, declared on September 27 after Azerbaijan attacked Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).
From September 27 to November 9, Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons.
On November 9, the leaders of the Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities in Artsakh. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin are handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.
A Russian peacekeeping contingent has been deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and adjacent regions, prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead are being exchanged.--0-
