“The women of Armenia – our mothers, sisters and daughters – are the driving force behind this movement and have a crucial role to play in building the new Armenia.” – Nikol Pashinyan
In an unprecedented show of civic defiance, protesters today in Yerevan today surrounded a convoy of government cars escorting Minister of Defense Vigen Sargsyan.
Ani Gevoryan posted the following video showing police using excessive force today to disperse protesters in her town of Hrazdan, the capital of Kotayk Province.
The MPs record cases when police unlawfully ill-treated peaceful demonstrators while detaining them, violating numerous rights, such as the right of personal freedom, fair trial, respect for privacy, inhuman treatment, freedom of association and expression.
The fourth rally calling for the departure of Serzh Sargsyan as Armenia’s prime minister kicked off today with Yelk Alliance MP Nikol Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan welcoming the crowds with a shower of rose petals.
COPENHAGEN, 20 April 2018 - On the eighth consecutive day of protests in Yerevan and other cities in Armenia, Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain), Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, today called on all sides to engage in constructive dialogue.
The attached video shows Yerevan police officers beating a protester’s face bloody, and ripping his shirt, in an attempt to detain him. The incident occurred at the intersection of Teryan and Moskovyan Streets.
At noon today, police prevented people protesting the April 17 election of Serzh Sargsyan as Armenian prime minister from marching down Azatutyun Avenue, a major artery located in the northern Zeytun section of Yerevan.
The police weren’t able to provide data on the number of people detained outside Yerevan.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian today reappointed the following ministers: Davit Harutyunyan (Minister of Justice), Ignati Arakelyan (Minister of Agriculture), Davit Tonoyan (Minister of Emergency Affairs) and Armen Amiryan (Minister of Culture).
Protesters have blocked streets and intersections in a movement that MP Nikol Pashinyan has recently described as a ‘velvet revolution’.
The press release reads: “Regarding as natural that any country can experience discontent, demands and concerns, the catholicoi stressed that such expressions of protest must exclusively be civilized in nature, respecting constitutional law and order.”
Residents of Yeghvard, a town in Armenia’s Kotayk Province, assembled in front of the municipal building to voice their opposition to the April 17 election of Serzh Sargsyan as the country’s prime minister, and to demand the renewal of Yerevan-Yeghvard bus service which stopped on April15.
Three large freight trucks are blocking Yerevan’s Halabyan-Kievan intersection, stopping all traffic, and causing tie-ups at the access to Haghtanak Bridge.
Police have detained some fifteen people who had just started an anti-Serzh Sargsyan protest march from Ashtarak to Yerevan.
Armenian police report that they have “officially and repeatedly asked journalists to maintain proper distance from places where police carry out operations to safeguard public order”. However, some journalists ignore the request and perform actions that “hinder police operations”. Police note that rallies, breaching the Law on Freedom of Assembly, continue in various parts of the city, “seriously hindering traffic, disproportionately...
A group of students from Erebuni State Medical College have blocked Titogradyan Street, which affords access to the school.
Lilli Ghazaryan contacted Hetq, saying that police detained around ten people from the Help Systems IT company for joining the anti-Serzh Sargsyan protests now taking place in Yerevan.
Police are now detaining protesters near Brusov University and are taking them to the Erebuni Police Station where they will be processed for administrative code violations. Twenty-two citizens, one a minor, were taken to the station.
Police have surrounded the car of anti-Serzh protest activist Hayk Barseghyan on the Udjan section of the Yerevan-Gyumri Highway
With the support of Business Armenia, New Yida company operating with Chinese capital invests up to $5 million in Armenia with the aim of building a new mineral water producing and bottling factory. On behalf of this, a document has been signed by the CEO of New Yida, Mr. Luo Gang and the Businessmen Support Team Leader of Business Armenia, Mr. Hayk Mirzoyan.
The Police Department of Armenia has issued the following statement regarding their actions vis-à-vis the anti-Serzh Sargsyan protests now taking place in Yerevan and elsewhere.
Follow the Yerevan protest march live.
Nikol Pashinyan, the Yelk Alliance MP who’s declared a ‘velvet revolution’ to oust recently elected Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, is today calling for the blockade of all major roadways in Armenia.
Shortly prior, the court satisfied the suit of Special Investigative Service investigator on the arrest of Tigran Mazmanyan, a civil activist. Thus, Mazmanyan was sentenced to a two-month imprisonment.
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