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    Relatives of detained protesters in Yerevan insists on their release

    Interfax News Agency, Russia
    April 18 2008

    YEREVAN April 18 -- Several dozen women organized a protest outside
    the Armenian Prosecutor General's office on Friday.

    They demanded that everyone detained after the elections be released,
    an Interfax correspondent reports.

    A total of 75 people were arrested and 18 more signed pledges not to
    leave the city in relation to mass rioting in Yerevan at the beginning
    of March.

    Under orders from Prosecutor General Agvan Ovsepyan a leading member
    of the Republic opposition party, Suren Surenyants, was released from
    custody on Friday against a pledge not to leave the city.
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