YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The "Dashink" (Alliance) party political council made a statement in which it condemned the act of violence committed on September 6 against "Iravunk" newspaper editor Hovhannes Galajian, qualifying it as a hopeless step taken by weak people. In the statement authors' words, the happened was addressed against free speech. The "Dashink" party political council called on public, political unions and healthy forces of the society to unite for establishing a democratic state in the RA and improvement of free press. The "Orinats Yerkir" (Country of Law) party expressed deep anxiety on the occasion of the act of violence committed towards H.Galajian. "Acts of violence committed against journalists show that there are forces in Armenia for which the free press speech and independent way of action are inadmissible and they do not limit themselves in choosing criminal means to limit that speech," is said in the statement made by the OYP press service. The party is also deeply concerned in the sense of murders of public sonority taking place in Armenia during the last period which are not revealed. According to the statement, "the mentioned is becoming a part of our public life what is too dangerous for future of the Republic of Armenia." Expecting implementation of decisive actions by legal bodies, the OYP mentions that "if real-legal estimations of the "Tsetsi krug" (shooting accident in the outskirts of Yerevan in early this year) and other noisy murders were given in time, we would not have such developments today."

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