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A teenage opposition activist was ambushed and beaten up by two unknown men in Yerevan, not far from the police station in the city's Kanaker-Zeytun district, late on Tuesday, New Armenia, an alliance of opposition forces, said in a statement issued on January 14.
16-year-old Hovhannes Harutyunyan, a child from a large family of a Karabakh war veteran living in difficult social conditions, has sustained serious bodily injuries, New Armenia said.
“[The assailants] provoked a fight before beating [Hovhannes] up; they openly told him that 'you've chosen a wrong path and have to back down.'
“This demonstrative disregard of not only rule of law but also human morality proves that after rigging the [Constitutional amendments] referendum, the ruling regime has exhausted all its resources of fake democracy and is trying to maintain its existence by way of blunt violations of human rights and creating a pervasive atmosphere of terror,” oppositionists' statement read.
Recall, another New Armenia activist, Syuzi Gevoryan, was attacked in Yerevan's Arabkir district late on January 5.