It is obvious that the efforts made by OSCE as well as other international organizations to reform the police sector in Armenia has failed.
Ohanyan says his friend had gone to the area to participate in a public debate regarding the armed seizure of the building and was far removed from the site when the clashes broke out.
Sargsyan called for the immediate release of the four hostage being held by Sasna Dzrer and for the group to lay down its weapons. The president said that future actions regarding the Sasna Dzrer members would adhere to the country’s constitution and laws.
Arguing that violence, weapons and taking hostages isn’t the way to resolve issues, the Supreme Body of the ARF in Armenia says that there is an alternative that demands “work, conscious organization, and the unity of free citizens.”
Film Director Aram Shahbazyan says that Yerevan police broke his arm last night when he went to visit a friend who lives opposite the police building seized on Sunday by the armed Sasna Dzrer group.
The Association of European Journalists, an independent professional association of journalists in Europe, expresses its extreme concern that freedom of expression,
Armenians assembled outside the Armenian Embassy in Athens in a sign of solidarity with the Sasna Dzrer armed group that seized a Yerevan police patrol building on Sunday.
Photo Yerevan: July 21 (Night Falls on Protesters Outside Seized Police Building)
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