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  • Reporter Beaten Up, Several Opposition Figures Detained In Yerevan

    REPORTER BEATEN UP, SEVERAL OPPOSITION FIGURES DETAINED IN YEREVAN

    Interfax
    April 9 2009
    Russia

    A correspondent for A1+ news agency David Jalalian has been assaulted
    in the center of Yerevan.

    "An ambulance team offered him first aid at the office of the agency
    after which he was taken to hospital," the agency reports.

    On Wednesday evening the police and special forces surrounded a
    thoroughfare in central Yerevan to prevent opposition members from
    going there for a so-called political walk.

    The coordinator of the opposition Armenian National Congress Levon
    Zurabian and nine other people were detained.

    At the congress press service Interfax was told that the police used
    force in the process of the detention.

    The central thoroughfare remains cordoned off by the police.

    Yerevan police told Interfax that all ten detainees are at the central
    precinct. The police spokesman refused to name the reasons for or
    details of the detention.
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