Second ARF member banned from entering Armenia

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01.08.2022, 10:53

A second ethnic Diaspora Armenian was banned from entering Armenia over the last two weeks, according to news reports.

Second ARF member banned from entering Armenia

YEREVAN, August 1, /ARKA/. A second ethnic Diaspora Armenian was banned from entering Armenia over the last two weeks, according to news reports.

Suneh Abrahamian from the Netherland's chapter of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's Youth Office who planned to participate in a camp in Armenian Syunik organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Youth Office was made fly back after waiting at Zvartnots Airport in Yerevan for nearly 12 hours.

“Yesterday evening upon arriving at the airport in Armenia to participate in the ARF Youth Office voluntary camps in Syunik, I was immediately put in a small room and interrogated. After taking my passport and keeping me for 12 hours without any explanation, I was informed that my entry to my homeland was rejected and I am a persona non grata for the Armenian authorities. Words cannot describe the disappointment and pain I feel for being denied my homeland. Currently I am waiting at the airport to return to the Netherlands,” she said in a Facebook post.

Abrahamian is the second Diaspora Armenian whose entry has been banned to Armenia by the authorities.

On July 14, Mourad Papazian, a member of the ARF Bureau and a co-chair the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF) was not allowed to enter Armenia.

According to the Armenian government, Papazian was banned to enter Armenia due to his active role in a protest against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan while he was visiting Paris in June 2021. -0-.

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