Police used what appeared to be smoke and concussion devices to disperse crowds gathered near the police building seized on Sunday by an armed group calling itself Sasna Dzrer.
Lawyer Tigran Hayrapetyan, who recently visited Yeghnukyan, says when his client asked why he was being held, his captors merely said that he had supported the Sasna Dzrer group during the past two days and had been in telephone contact with them.
Yerevan police prohibited the wife of arrested opposition activist Jirayr Sefilian from visiting him in jail today where he’s awaiting trial on illegal arms trafficking and possession.
Yerevan police are studying videos taken of individuals who have participated in gatherings in the Armenian capital over the past few days since an armed group seized a police building and are terrorizing them, this according to the opposition Founding Parliament (FP) organization.
Hydro Corporation Ltd. has filed a petition with the government of Armenia to receive tax breaks on 850 million AMD (US$1.8) worth of glass-fiber water pipes from Turkey.
As outrage over images of police killings of black men in the US flooded social media, a group of local and diasporan Armenians gathered at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
The Public Council of Armenia, established in July 2008 by the government as a response to the mass public protests, has called for a negotiated settlement of the standoff between police and an armed group that seized a police building early Sunday.
19 july 2016, Yerevan
Friends of Petrosyan, a well-known figure in Yerevan’s political and art scene, say they do not know where they were taken.
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