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Pavel Manukyan, a key 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’s demands for "the change of criminal-oligarchic regime in Armenia and giving power back to the people."
“As for the release of Zhirayr Sefilyan and [other jailed oppositionists], it will come as a logical consequence of change of power,” Manukyan said. He added that their main problem now – in addition to the lack of food – is that it’s rather difficult to find out what’s happening outside the seized building.
Recall, an armed group affiliated with radical anti-government movement Founding Parliament stormed the police station in Yerevan’s Erebuni district early on Sunday, taking hostages and demanding that jailed Founding Parliament leader Zhirayr Sefilyan be released. The gunmen subsequently announced that they also wanted Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan to step down.