July, 2016

• 20 July

  

  Erebuni Gunmen Reaffirm Their Demand for Regime Change in Armenia

  Pavel Manukyan, a senior member of the “Daredevils of Sasun” armed group that has been occupying a Yerevan police station since Sunday, reaffirmed in a phone conversation with an Armtimes.com reporter the group...
• 19 July

  

  Citizens Clash with Police Near Seized Yerevan Police Station (Video, Updated)

  The people, however, calmed down moments later after a Founding Parliament representative said Varuzhan Avetisyan – one of the men of the armed group - had told him over the phone that they had opened...
• 19 July

  

  Security Forces Continue ‘Intensive Negotiations’ with Erebuni Gunmen

  The National Security Service urges everyone not to intervene in matters which are exclusively within the jurisdiction of the competent authorities, not to interfere with the proper and effective implementation of their activities...
• 19 July

  

  Yerevan Detainees Subjected to Beatings, Humiliation by Police, Human Rights Activists Report

  He added that activist Davit Sanasaryan and several other detainees have told him that they were subjected to police brutality on the way to the unit, as a result of which Sanasaryan has suffered a concussion...
• 19 July

  

  Authorities Intend to Break Off Negotiations with Armed Group, Oppositionist Says

  Yenigomshyan also noted that the group inside the police station had very little and very poor quality food; “Nevertheless, they keep their spirits high and the relations with the police officers inside are amicable...
• 19 July

  

  Yerevan Police Forcibly Halt March to Occupied Station (VIDEO)

  Several citizens were forcibly detained in the ensuing clashes between the police and the marchers, only to be set free less than two hours later after those gathered marched through Yerevan's streets to demand their release...
• 18 July

  

  Situation Outside Seized Police Station ‘Tense,’ Gunmen Say (Updated)

  Throughout Sunday, members and supporters of Founding Parliament as well as those of other anti-government initiatives were being groundlessly arrested by law enforcement officers...
• 18 July

  

  Citizen Detained Nearby Occupied Police Station Calls Reasons for His Arrest ‘Absurdity’

  Speaking to Epress.am after being released from a 4 hour and 10 minute custody, Ivchenko, who has been walking with crutches for months after injuring his hip in April, called the police’s reasoning an...
• 18 July

  

  Supporters and Relatives of Yerevan Gunmen, Ordinary Bystanders Forcibly Detained by Police (VIDEO)

  Karo Yeghnukyan, a senior Founding Parliament member, told reporters that police did not present any grounds for detaining the young people; he added that his daughters had specifically been targeted by the police...
• 18 July

  

  Citizen Believes Armenians Sympathize with Yerevan Gunmen ‘Deep in Their Hearts’

  The people’s unwillingness to go out into the streets, according to the 65-year-old citizen, was a consequence of them being convinced that they would no longer be able to change anything in the country. Nevertheless...