Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) says special police units have received no order to storm the police building seized earlier today by a group calling itself Sasna Dzrer (Daredevils of Sasoun).
The following video shows the scene adjacent to the police building seized earlier today by armed individuals in Yerevan’s Erebouni neighborhood.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has met with top law enforcement officials and has been apprised of today’s seizure of a Yerevan police station and the taking of hostages, this according to the presidential office.
The following video, released by MP Nikol Pashinyan, shows Pavel Manoukyan, one of the armed group that seized a Yerevan police station earlier today demanding the release of various individuals, including Jirayr Sefilyan, it claims are political prisoners.
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender’s (HRD) Office says its staffers have received a number of reports of people being rounded up in Yerevan by the police in the aftermath of today’s seizure of a local police station and the taking of hostages.
Police detained some twenty individuals who had gathered in Yerevan’s Liberty Square today at 1:00 p.m. Many were just sitting in the cafes that circle the square.
A group calling itself Sasna Dzrer (after the Armenian national epic Daredevils of Sasoun), has announced that the storming of a Yerevan police station earlier today is the start of an armed uprising in Armenia.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) says that earlier today a group of armed men entered the Police Patrol Service and took a number of people inside hostage.
Yerevan police have closed the road leading to the Erebouni Police Department that had been taken over earlier today by a group of armed men.
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