July, 2016

• 21 July

  

  Yerevan Armed Group and Hostages Provided with Food

  According to Sanasaryan, the food had been transferred to the group by Nagorno-Karabakh parliament MP Vitaly Balasanyan who today met with the gunmen to negotiate with them. The activist added that the parliamentarian...
• 21 July

  

  I Declare My Solidarity with the Rebels

  Meanwhile, I declare my solidarity with the rebels and demand that the authorities resolve the conflict through exclusively peaceful negotiations, no matter how much time or effort it requires...
• 21 July

  

  Yerevan Reporter Allegedly Beaten Up by Plainclothes Police

  Gevorg Tasunyan, a reporter for Armenian legal news portal Iravaban.net, was attacked by plainclothes police officers on July 21 while covering the violent police crackdown on nearly two hundred demonstrators gathered outside the seized police station in Yerevan’s Erebuni district. ..
• 21 July

  

  Erebuni Armed Group Leader Says Police Forces Gather Outside Seized Building

  Police have begun to mobilize outside the seized police station in Yerevan’s Erebuni district, while doctors have been removed from the area, Varuzhan Avetisyan, one of the leaders of the armed group “Daredevils...
• 21 July

  

  Protester Claims Police Subjected Detained Civilians to Beatings

  One of the detainees, who wished to remain anonymous, said in a conversation with Epress.am that he had been detained by plain clothes police officers who punched and kicked him on the way to the station...
• 21 July

  

  Police Forcibly Disperse Protesters Outside Seized Yerevan Building

  Most of the protesters appeared to be forcibly detained on the spot, while getting punched and kicked by police officers in the process. Several of those detained told Epress.am over the phone that as of 7:30 am people were slowly being...