A person detained in police offices in Yerevan, in the result of clashes of protesters with police and the dispersal of the rally in support of the invaders police regiment, said to “Interfax” press Secretary of the Armenian police Ashot Aharonyan.
The exact number of detained at the moment he called difficult.
According to the latest data of the Ministry of health of Armenia, as a result of dispersal of demonstrators around the territory occupied buildings injured 60 people. All of them were hospitalized, said the Agency.
On July 17, an armed group of the “Sasna tsrer” (“the Violent of Sasun”) seized the branch PPP in Yerevan, resulting in a policeman was killed Arthur Vanean and six people were injured. The attackers first demanded the release from prison of a party to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh Zhirayr Sefilyan, a suspect in the illegal acquisition and possession of weapons, and then the resignation of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.
On Friday, the opposition rally turned into a March to the captured by an armed group in the territory of the police station. The participants at one point broke through a police cordon, trying to approach the seized building.
Later the area around the building was released.
