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Participating in the “Հարթակ” (“Platform”) talk show hosted by the Lragir.am electronic news agency on 28 November, RSC Project Coordinator Haykak Arshamyan assessed the latest wave of assaults targeting civil society activists in Armenia. Arshamyan noted that the latest incidents, involving both a physical assault of a young activist and a coordinated series of arson attacks against the vehicles belonging to civil society activists, were part of a broader context of “impunity,” as demonstrated by the complete failure of the police to arrest or even identify any of the assailants involved in such attacks against civil figures.
.Arshamyan himself was one of the growing numbers of victim, having been ambushed at night in the courtyard of his home, for which he was hospitalized (see: www.armenialiberty.org/content/article/25103142.html). His September 2013 attack, along with the others, remains unsolved and was officially closed by the central Yerevan police after a rather unprofessional investigation, which failed to even consult active surveillance cameras in proximity of that attack.