Armenia: Soros Foundation complains of persecutions

The Yerevan-based office of the "Open Society Institute – Assistance Fund" (Soros Foundation) has announced the persecution by members of the "Veto" movement, who have been on duty at the foundation building for several weeks and make photos of coming-out people.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in June, 2019, the members of the "Veto" movement held protests at the office of the "Soros Foundation" in Yerevan. They accused it of anti-state actions and demanded to close it.

The Foundation treated the allegations false and spread by the "people seeking to destabilize Armenia."

The authors of the statement said that on September 25, teachers who took part in the Summer School programme in the Ararat region visited the Foundation. After the teachers left the building, activists of the "Veto" movement "began to persecuting them, taking photos and filming videos, and voicing false accusations against them; later these materials were posted on the Internet."

According to Narek Malyan, the head of the "Veto" movement, a former adviser to the head of the Armenian Police, the activists of the movement have been on duty at the "Soros Foundation" for three weeks aiming to "identify the people who are selling their homeland and work against the statehood of Armenia."