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ASSAULT ON EDIK BAGHDASARYAN
[08:57 pm] 17 November, 2008
Edik Baghdasaryan, President of the Investigative Journalists NGO, was taken to hospital minutes ago all in blood. He was severely beaten and half-naked.
At about 8:00 p.m. three unknown people fell on Edik Baghdasaryan at 1/3 Pavstos Buzand when the latter was on his way home.
“They were already waiting for me when I approached my car. They fell on me without uttering a word and began hitting,” Edik Baghdasaryan told A1+.
The Editor-in-chief of Hetq Online resisted the blows. Just at that moment one of them hit Baghdasaryan on the head with a stone. They took flight after seeing the flow of blood spilling from Baghdasaryan's head. Edik Baghdasaryan ran to the building and asked to call an ambulance. The group had torn off Baghdasaryan's shirt and taken the photocamera belonging to the editorial office.
Barbarians... They'll be
Hripsime Tavitian 7 weeks 22 hr ago
Barbarians...
They'll be moaning about Hrant Dink, but the same thing happens in Armenia.
Edik Baghdasaryan video
Կարեն Կարապետյան 7 weeks 21 hr ago
...and here's the video:
Link to Edik Baghdasaryan's article published in Hetq today
Ani 7 weeks 18 hr ago
I don't know if there is a cause and effect, but he has been courageously pursuing this story of corruption for many months:
http://www.hetq.am/eng/economy/8565/
Structure
Կարեն Կարապետյան 7 weeks 16 hr ago
Very interesting link. But let's keep the structure on khosq! If you want to post a link, then it's better to create a new item and post it that way. Depending on the Title, Text and Tags the khosq system will try to pick it up and show it in "Related links".
This should be a common practice on khosq... otherwise even the comments are going to digress from the original theme of the post.
Where did the money come from?
Bruce Tasker 7 weeks 17 hr ago
The article asks: where all that money has come from?
I can tell you where a good deal of Ayvazyan’s starter money came from in 1995. I had finished a stove and peat briquette project in Charentsevan, where Ayvazyan was Mayor, and we distributed the last of the stoves and briquettes to schools and under-privileged in Charentsevan. Ayvazyan invited me to his office and asked if I could find a buyer for the hundreds of thousands of tons of cast iron that were no longer needed in the town, as all industry was at a standstill. I spent 6 months arranging a contract with a Government backed Iranian company to sell 10,000 tons a year. Ayvazyan gave me his stand-in for a new company, which I set up, and we both put in a couple of thousand dollars to set the ball rolling. In July that year I delivered the first consignment of 107 tons, after which Ayvazyan came to Yerevan, beat on my mother-in-laws door and screamed at her that he wanted his money back, saying he wanted nothing more to do with the sale of cast iron to Iran. I gave him his money back and then watched as he sent thousands of tons of cast iron each day in open trucks to Iran, under the contract I had arranged. He made a minimum $1 million in the first year on that contract.
It is a shame that Edik got involved with Ayvazyan, he is one of Armenia’s foremost thugs, very suited to being an Armenian Minister. Readers may recall, he was behind the recent Government action to drive Anil Agarwal out of the Republic, one of Armenia’s very few real foreign investors, owner of the Ararat gold plant and one of India’s most prominent business people. That case went to the European court, and I understand Agarwal won?
Edik does magnificent work and I wish him the Very Best
Statement from Press Associations on Edik Baghdasaryan's Assault
Ani 7 weeks 5 hr ago
In the evening of November 17, 2008 in Yerevan Edik Baghdasarian, the Chairman of “Investigative Journalists” NGO, the Chief Editor of “Hetq” online publication, was assaulted and beaten. The journalist had a brain concussion, and several seams were put on his head at “Surb Grigor Lusavorich” medical center.
Edik Baghdasarian had received threats before, and this allows believing that this attack is directly linked to his professional activities.
For many times already scores are settled with journalists in this mean manner. And every time the authorities assure that they will do everything in their power to identify the perpetrators. Yet the crimes remain undisclosed, with their organizers and implementers unpunished. This lack of punishment unties the hands of those who seek to repress the freedom of expression.
We condemn the violence committed against Edik Baghdasarian, and we call on the authorities to refrain from repeated waste of promises, to really disclose the crime and punish those guilty.
Yerevan Press Club
Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression
Internews Media Support NGO
Journalists Union of Armenia
“TEAM” Research Center
Media Diversity Institute-Armenia
“Asparez” Journalist’s Club
"A1+" TV
Armenian Representative of “Scoop” Danish Network Promoting Investigative
Reporting Helsinki Committee of Armenia
“Transparency International” Anti-Corruption Center
“For Sustainable Human Development” Association
November 18, 2008
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