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More than a dozen demonstrators were detained on Thursday after clashing with Armenian police during an action in central Yerevan held by New Armenia opposition movement in support of their jailed member Gevorg Safaryan, the Armenian service of RFE/RL (Azatutyun.am) reports.
As a result of the police intervention that took place on Mashtots Avenue, one of the Armenian capital's main arteries, a demonstrator, Ruzanna Yeghnukyan, sustained a head injury and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Witnesses told reporters that Yeghnukyan was “kicked in the head” by a police officer.
Speaking to Azatutyun, however, Yerevan Police Deputy Chief Valery Osipyan claimed that law enforcement officers had “nothing to do” with the woman's injury and that it was the result of demonstrators “pushing each other back and forth as police were trying to unblock the street.”