On the initiative of “Veles” NGO, four citizens, Marina Poghosyan, Zaruhi Hovhannisyan, Arman Gharibyan and Elena Adamyan applied to the Special Investigation Service to ask them to recognize them as victims in the frame of the criminal case initiated against the second president of Armenia, R. Kocharian who is charged with conspiring to overthrow the country’s constitutional order. On March 1, 2008 R. Kocharyan announced a state of emergency and army subdivisions entered Yerevan. As a result hundred thousands of citizens were deprived their right to peaceful assembly. After this initiative many citizens are sending same kind of applications to the Special Investigation Service asking to recognize them as victims.