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POLICE STOP PROTESTERS FROM MARCHING TO PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, OVER TWO DOZEN ACTIVISTS DETAINED
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NEWS | 05.11.13 | 21:41
Riot police were deployed in central Yerevan tonight to block a
protest march towards the Presidential Palace.
The action by protesters that eventually turned violent was held as
part of an earlier announced Million Mask March propagated through
Facebook and other online social networking sites.
The initiative to make Armenia the only post-Soviet nation to join the
world event promoted by Anonymous, a loosely associated international
network of activists known to wear Guy Fawkes masks, belongs to
little-known opposition Tseghakron party leader Shant Harutyunyan.
The obscure politician known for his extreme views was detained among
more than two dozen other protesters for exciting violence. In his
prior public statements Harutyunyan called for starting a revolution
in Armenia.
Police said despite repeated warnings not to disturb public peace
and to refrain from violent actions protesters took to the street
with truncheons and rods and also put to use self-made explosives.
According to a statement issued by the Police, a number of police
workers were injured in the clash. The Police stressed that they will
not tolerate any illegal action and all offenders will be punished
in all strictness of the law.
The situation in Mashtots Boulevard remained tense in the evening.
According to media reports, there were injured people also among
protesters.
http://armenianow.com/news/49788/armenia_march_opposition_carrests_shant_harutyunya n
NEWS | 05.11.13 | 21:41
Riot police were deployed in central Yerevan tonight to block a
protest march towards the Presidential Palace.
The action by protesters that eventually turned violent was held as
part of an earlier announced Million Mask March propagated through
Facebook and other online social networking sites.
The initiative to make Armenia the only post-Soviet nation to join the
world event promoted by Anonymous, a loosely associated international
network of activists known to wear Guy Fawkes masks, belongs to
little-known opposition Tseghakron party leader Shant Harutyunyan.
The obscure politician known for his extreme views was detained among
more than two dozen other protesters for exciting violence. In his
prior public statements Harutyunyan called for starting a revolution
in Armenia.
Police said despite repeated warnings not to disturb public peace
and to refrain from violent actions protesters took to the street
with truncheons and rods and also put to use self-made explosives.
According to a statement issued by the Police, a number of police
workers were injured in the clash. The Police stressed that they will
not tolerate any illegal action and all offenders will be punished
in all strictness of the law.
The situation in Mashtots Boulevard remained tense in the evening.
According to media reports, there were injured people also among
protesters.