Despite an ultimatum issued by law enforcement in Armenia to the armed Sasna Dzrer armed group to lay down their weapons by 5 p.m. today, Police spokesman Ashot Aharonyan syas that police aren’t mounting any assault on the police building seized by the group two weeks ago.
Yerevan policeman Yura Tepanosyan was shot and killed by a member of the armed Sasna Dzrer group today, this according to a Facebook post by Police Spokesman Ashot Aharonyan.
The U.S. Embassy is deeply concerned by the shocking images and credible reports of violence and excessive use of force by the police to disperse protestors during the night of July 29-30.
Yerevan--In the most egregious campaign of human rights violations since the falsification of elections and referenda, the ruling regime has rounded up and physically attacked hundreds of citizens, including journalists, for exercising their constitutional right of assembly.
Saying that all avenues to peacefully resolve the armed standoff at a Yerevan police building seized on July 17 by the Sasna Dzrer group, Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) says it will give the group until 5 p.m. today to lay down its arms.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) has urged news outlets to provide evidence (photos, video) that police used violence against reporters last night when tear gas and percussion grenades were used to disperse crowds that had gathered outside a security cordon surrounding the police building seized two weeks ago by the armed group Sasna Dzrer.
We are closely following the events in Yerevan unfolding since the seizure of a police compound in Erebuni on 17 July.
Jailed Founding Parliament member Jirayr Sefilian says that he will only meet with Armenian President Serzh Sargsayn to resolve the armed standoff at a Yerevan police building after having met with members of the Sasna Dzrer group that seized it on July 17.
The Chamber, in a statement, says that Yerevan police have overstepped their bounds during the past few days by using force and special measures against demonstrators and members of the press.
Robert Ananyan, a reporter for Armenia’s A1+ news outlet, is being treated at the Yerevan’s St. Gregory the Illuminator for wounds to his legs and hand when police let loose with percussion grenades on crowds demonstrating near the police building seized by an armed group two weeks ago.
Last night’s clashes in Yerevan between demonstrators and police in the neighborhood near the police building seized by the Sasna Dzrer armed group left 60 wounded, some seriously, this according to Armenia’s Ministry of Health.
Hrach Gevorgyan, an Artsakh Defense Army soldier, was wounded by Azerbaijani fire last night while on guard duty at an eastern military base, this according to the NKR Ministry of Defense.
Yerevan’s St. Gregory the Illuminator Hospital was swamped with people injured in last night’s clashes between police and demonstrators near the site of the police building seized by the armed Sasna Dzrer group two weeks ago.
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