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PRESS
RELEASE
The Ex-politically Persecuted Again Victims of Police Violence
Article
47 of the Constitution verbally prescribes that the right of
peaceful and weapons-free assemblies and participation in them is
guranteed. Besides this, the peaceful assemblies, the premises and
the places of public passage-ways are made in compliance with
procedures as defined by law.
However a new case of violence use on the part of Police is
encountered. Order Forces are entitled to act according to the law
when it comes to mass rallies, to take the appropriate measures
for their peaceful proceedings, void of excesses . Moreover the
rules that impose restrictions about rallies in front of the
institutions or prohibit foot passing in the public places, are
clearly defined. Despite these, AHC affirms that violence has been
used against the protestors, and this violence has exceeded the
limit of an action in the spirit of tolerance and peaceful
communication with the demonstrators. These extreme measures would
have been avoided and appeal would have been addressed to the
reason and understanding of the protesters that what was meant was
not a ban on the peaceful communication in contradiction with the
Constitution, but it was that no one can disturb the normal
proceedings of the institution and normal life of the citizens.
It is obvious the police at a certain moment has made use of
brutal methods. Some participants have been brutally treated and
detained at the Police Station, among them an MP of Balli Kombėtar.
That the Police has gone beyond the limits is made clear by the
reaction of a spoekesman of the Socialist Party who voiced his
opinion about the violence used against the ex-persecuted. This
attitude is worth-mentioning, but the Socialist Party in power has
all the means to put things in order among its own ranks and ask
the order forces to be more civilized and moderate with the
citizens. |
