Armenia’s Heritage Party (Zharangutyun) has condemned the actions of the police towards the civilian population since Sunday when a group of armed individuals seized a police building in Yerevan.

The police, according to the Heritage Party statement, have trampled the exercise of various human rights and all accepted moral norms.

Over the past three days, citizens have been arbitrarily detained by law enforcement and, in some cases, physically abused.

The party states that the police have defenders of illegality instead of the law.