Police detain nearly 200 protesters in Yerevan

Armenian police detained 189 people at mass protests in Yerevan over the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, department spokesman Edgar Janoyan said, Interfax reports.

They are suspected of disobeying the lawful demands of the police. Earlier, the police reported 125 detainees as of 9:40 am (8:40 Moscow time).

Mikael Badalyan, the leader of the Azatagrum movement, ex-head of the Russian society Tsargrad in Armenia, is among the detainees, he wrote on TELEGRAM. The list also includes a member of the Motherland party Arsen Babayan, who was detained while trying to block the street, Yerkir.am reports. According to the publication, Armen Ashotyan, vice president of the Republican Party of Armenia, the party of former President Serzh Sargsyan, was also detained.

The police began to detain the opposition, blocking the streets in Yerevan Politics

One of the leaders of Azatagrum, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia, Ishkhan Saghatelyan, said that the police are using brute force against the protesters. Badalyan published a recording showing how one of the policemen beats the detainee several times in the stomach.

The opposition began holding rallies in Armenia on April 17. This happened after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on April 14 that it was necessary to “lower the bar of expectations” on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. Representatives of the opposition movements took his words as a readiness to recognize the region as part of Azerbaijan. They accused Pashinyan of betrayal and dependence on Turkey. The prime minister himself rejected the intention to “surrender” Karabakh.

In addition, the opposition protests against the fact that the authorities do not support RUSSIA during the military operation in Ukraine.

The day before, the residents of Yerevan gathered for a protest in France Square and set up tents there for a round-the-clock rally. The traffic on the square was stopped, the protesters also built barricades from garbage cans and benches. The opposition announced that it would start large-scale civil disobedience actions from May 2.

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Armenian opposition announced "large-scale actions of disobedience" from May 2 Politics

The protests began at 8:30 am local time (7:30 Moscow time). The protesters blocked traffic on 14 streets in the capital, including with the help of garbage cans and cars that the police tried to move. 

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