Tweet
BAGHRAMYAN AVENUE STANDOFF ENDS AS POLICE AGREE TO REMOVE CORDONS
http://armenianow.com/vote_2013/45184/armvote13_raffi_hovannisian_protest_baghramyan_ave nue
VOTE 2013 | 09.04.13 | 23:19
Several thousand of opposition protesters were allowed to march through
a central Yerevan boulevard where the Presidential Palace is located
at the end of what was a day of dueling 'inaugurations' in Armenia.
After negotiations with Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan late on Tuesday
opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian told his supporters that the police
had agreed to remove the cordons and let the demonstrators proceed
through the thoroughfare to end their march in Liberty Square for a
"good night".
Hovannisian said that while passing the Presidential Headquarters
opposition supporters were free to express themselves, but he suggested
that they sing the national anthem as a means of voicing their protest
against what he has repeatedly called a 'false' oath taken by President
Serzh Sargsyan at an inauguration earlier that day.
Earlier, Hovannisian, accompanied by Police Chief Gasparyan, led part
of his supporters to a hilltop memorial to victims of the Armenian
Genocide at Tsitsernakaberd where he prayed for Armenia's tomorrow,
which he said would bring a new dawn for the nation.
Before that a group of protesters remaining locked in the standoff
with riot police led by another former presidential candidate Andrias
Ghukasyan announced the start of a sin-in, but he was later reportedly
taken to a police department.
Another senior oppositionist and Hovannisian aide, deputy chairman
of the Heritage Party Armen Martirosyan, who suffered a broken
nose in the evening scuffles, was also first reported to have been
taken to a police station. But the police chief said later that the
oppositionist was not in police custody, but was rather in hospital
to receive medical treatment.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
http://armenianow.com/vote_2013/45184/armvote13_raffi_hovannisian_protest_baghramyan_ave nue
VOTE 2013 | 09.04.13 | 23:19
Several thousand of opposition protesters were allowed to march through
a central Yerevan boulevard where the Presidential Palace is located
at the end of what was a day of dueling 'inaugurations' in Armenia.
After negotiations with Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan late on Tuesday
opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian told his supporters that the police
had agreed to remove the cordons and let the demonstrators proceed
through the thoroughfare to end their march in Liberty Square for a
"good night".
Hovannisian said that while passing the Presidential Headquarters
opposition supporters were free to express themselves, but he suggested
that they sing the national anthem as a means of voicing their protest
against what he has repeatedly called a 'false' oath taken by President
Serzh Sargsyan at an inauguration earlier that day.
Earlier, Hovannisian, accompanied by Police Chief Gasparyan, led part
of his supporters to a hilltop memorial to victims of the Armenian
Genocide at Tsitsernakaberd where he prayed for Armenia's tomorrow,
which he said would bring a new dawn for the nation.
Before that a group of protesters remaining locked in the standoff
with riot police led by another former presidential candidate Andrias
Ghukasyan announced the start of a sin-in, but he was later reportedly
taken to a police department.
Another senior oppositionist and Hovannisian aide, deputy chairman
of the Heritage Party Armen Martirosyan, who suffered a broken
nose in the evening scuffles, was also first reported to have been
taken to a police station. But the police chief said later that the
oppositionist was not in police custody, but was rather in hospital
to receive medical treatment.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress