Armenia: Editor detained

YPC, Yerevan, 01 Mar 2009 – On February 24 “Haikakan Zhamanak” newspaper published an article “Now the Military Police. Was a New Bug Being Installed?”, reporting that on Saturday February 21 at one of the Yerevan streets an employee of the daily, the Executive Editor Hrach Hakobian, was detained. As the article noted, Hrach Hakobian was taken to the RA Military Police, where he was kept for 9 hours. As “Haikakan Zhamanak” writes, representatives of the Military Police tried to determine whether Hrach Hakobian was in contact with some personality wanted by the police. During Hakobian’s stay at the Police, the article goes on saying, his personal belongings were seized, including the keys to the editorial office and the mobile phone. Quoting other details of what had happened, “Haikakan Zhamanak” supposed that “the force structures had implemented some planned operation” against the daily.

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