04/06/2019 12:01
Armenian parliament adopts bill on providing compensation to relatives of March 1 victims
The Armenian National Assembly adopted at the second reading the bill on providing compensation to the relatives of victims of March 1, 2008 victims in Yerevan. All the factions backed the bill which has been adopted with 105 for votes.
The bill has been authored by My Step lawmakers Lena Nazaryan and Alen Simonyan.
The form of provision of the assistance to the stakeholders will be set by the executive power.
After the first reading the authors offered new points, particularly suggesting provision of compensation to police officers who suffered during the events but were not criminally persecuted, or were acquitted.