The police weren’t able to provide data on the number of people detained outside Yerevan.
Protesters have blocked streets and intersections in a movement that MP Nikol Pashinyan has recently described as a ‘velvet revolution’.
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.
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