The Armenian police have arrêté14 opposition activists after a demonstration in Yerevan Thursday, March 24 which degenerated into clashes with anti-émeutes.Les protesters forces had mobilized to demand the release of a member of a formation of the opposition who had been arrested in January and detained since. New Armenian public salvation Front has organized several rallies in the days leading up to protest against the continued detention of Gevorg Safaryan, whose arrest was denounced as politically motivated by the associations defending human rights .
More than a dozen women claiming that the radical opposition movement had gathered yesterday outside the headquarters of the Armenian police. G.Safarian is accused of attacking a police officer in the night of Saint Sylsvestre. The police resorted to use of force against Armenia of new militants Thursday, March 24, while they were chained to the floor of the Mashtots Avenue, one of the major roads in the center of the capital city. Ruzanna Yegnukian, who was among the protesters, was wounded in the head and was hospitalized.
Her husband, who is also a great figure of the new movement Armenia, Garo Yegnukian figure meanwhile the number of protesters arrested by police. However, it was released quickly enough in order to visit his wife in hospital Surp Grigor Lusavorich of Yerevan. G. Yegnukian said the head injuries his wife are due to a blow by a police officer. But Valeri Osipian, a deputy police chief of Yerevan, brought his denial. He claimed that the chained protesters were injured themselves while they struggled resisting police who were trying to make them leave.
The same day the Armenian government rejected a predictable opposition motion calling for officially commemorate the anniversary of the post-election violence of 2008, which had resulted in the death of 10 demonstrators in Yerevan. The Armenian National Congress (HAK) Levon Ter-Petrosian, who was leading the protest campaign to denounce in the street the results of Sarkisian’s election to the presidency in February 2008, wanted to be March 1 declared a day of remembrance of the victims and the “national uprising against state terror and repression.”
The violence and the many arrests that followed, had tarnished the inauguration Sarkisian for his first presidential term, even if the responsibility incumbent rather by his predecessor and mentor, Robert Kocharian, with which it is cold to Moreover since. But President Sargsyan, received half of his second term, has not seen fit to make a symbolic break with the tragic events that marked his rise to power and Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan addressed a plea of receive at the request of the opposition party.
Friday, March 25, 2016,
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