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Thousands Continue Flooding Yerevan Streets After Pashinyan Arrest (Live Thread)
Once Pashinyan was taken care of, riot police then used stun grenades against the crowd and began mass beatings and detentions...Read More »
US Embassy in Armenia Urges Authorities to Refrain from Violence Against Peaceful Demonstrators
We urge the government to show restraint to allow for peaceful protest and we urge those exercising their freedom of assembly to do so responsibly, to avoid violence, and to prevent an escalatio...Read More »
VIDEO: Police Start Carrying Out Sargsyan’s Threats of Repeating 2008 Deadly Post-Election Clashes
Leaders Nikol Pashinyan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Sasun Mikayelyan were detained by police on the spot. The Special Investigation Service later reported that the three had...Read More »
VIDEO: Serzh Sargsyan Threatens Pashinyan With March 1 to Make Him Stop Fighting
Armenia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan today reminded opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan about the 2008 March 1 deadly post-election clashes to...Read More »
Pashinyan to Negotiate with Authorities ‘on Behalf of People’ (Live Thread)
The Armenian police have issued a statement to demand that Nikol Pashinyan immediately stops the rallies across Yerevan. The law enforcement agency threatens otherwise to take measures to disperse them...Read More »
VIDEO: March in Support of Avan and Nor Nork Residents
These Yerevan districts are infamous for their “hood authorities” who traditionally carry out the orders of wealthy members of the ruling Republican Party - mayor Taron Margaryan and president...Read More »
Striking Schoolkid’s Uncle Held in Custody on False Allegation
The striking students were warned outside the school yesterday that they still had exams to pass and should reconsider their behavior. Then [teacher] Mezhlumyan slapped ...Read More »
VIDEO: Red-Beret Officers Attack and Break Opposition Activist’s Car
Earlier on Saturday, an opposition activist had parked his car on Abovyan street and locked himself inside the vehicle...Read More »
‘Be Bold and Reject Serzh!’; Rally in Yerevan Will Accept Nothing But ‘Serzh Sargsyan’s Capitulation’
The entire Diaspora is with us! People are repatriating to stand up [against Sargsyan]. And those who are not able to, carry out protest actions all over the world - in Marseilles...Read More »
VIDEO: ‘Serzh Is Not Our Father’; Nearly 200 Demonstrators Detained Across Yerevan (Live Thread)
Early on Friday Pashinyan went live on Facebook to call upon people to join the Velvet Revolution and “show Serzh Sargsyan that he is not in control of the situation.” He urged ...Read More »