In the early morning of May 5, an attempt was made to break the window bars of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly Vanadzor branch office where the editorial board of "Civil Initiative" weekly is located. Yerevan Press Club was notified about it by the head of the HCA Vanadzor branch and newspaper editor Arthur Sakunts. The malefactors have also broken the front door upper cover.
This is already the second assault on the HCA Vanadzor branch. The office was set on fire in the early morning of March 14, however the perpetrators have not been found up to this day. The arson occurred on the eve of the action realized by this human rights organization and devoted to 2003 presidential elections violations. In the course of the action, Arthur Sakunts was arrested and sentenced to 10 days of administrative imprisonment (see details in YPC Weekly Newsletter, March 15-21, 2003).
