When asked by his lawyer if he had any message for the people, Sasna Dzrer member Arayik Khandoyan, who surrendered yesterday along with 19 others of the armed group that had seized a police building on July 17, said: “The only thing I have to say is that I love my homeland, my Armenia and my Armenian people.”
A Yerevan court today handed down a three-month pre-trial detention order for Pavel Manukyan, one of the Sasna Dzrer members who seized a police building in Yerevan on July 17 and continue to occupy it.
Police press spokesman Ashot Aharonyan, in a Facebook post, says that thus morning around 9, Sedrak Nazaryan, a member of the armed Sasna Dzrer group, was wounded and taken to hospital.
During the past hour, explosions have been heard emanating from the Yerevan police building occupied by the Sasna Dzrer armed group for the past two weeks, this according to a statement released by the Founding Parliament (FP).
The citizens of Armenia have every right to demonstrate in support of their views while police attacks on demonstrators risk further bloodshed.
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.
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.
We are closely following the events in Yerevan unfolding since the seizure of a police compound in Erebuni on 17 July.