A police lieutenant-colonel and a captain have been charged with using excessive force and damaging their property to prevent journalists from carrying out their duties on June 23, 2015, during the #Electric Yerevan protests on Baghramyan Avenue and in Liberty Square.

The names of the two police officers have not been released according to a statement released by Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS).

The two have temporarily been relieved of their duties.

For the past year, investigations looking into Yerevan police maltreatment of reporters covering the dispersal of Electric Yerevan demonstrators on June 23, 2015, have languished with no resolution in sight.

On that day, scores of reporters covering the demonstrations protesting electricity rate hikes were manhandled and their equipment either seized or broken.