60 injured in protester dispersion at Yerevan’s captured police station
More than 100 people were detained in Yerevan after clashes between demonstrators and police, Interfax reported.
Earlier TASS reported that Protesters have clashed with police in Yerevan.According to the information, law enforcement officers used stun grenades.Armenian police dispersed the opposition demonstration in Yerevan July 29, Interfax reported.
The number of people hospitalized after the dispersion of protesters near a captured police building in the country’s capital has gone up to 60, press secretary of Armenia’s Ministry of Health, Anahit Aytayan, said.
"Sixty people were hospitalized as a result of the police dispersion of demonstrations held around the territory of the patrol police building captured by an armed group in Yerevan," Aytayan said, News.am reported.
Operator of Russian "Life" TV channel was injured in the dispersal of protesters in Yerevan, RIA Novosti reported.
Another rally started on Freedom Square in Armenian capital in support of the armed group that seized the police building in Yerevan, on July 29.
The armed group seized the headquarters of the police and interior troops in Erebuni, Yerevan, July 17, demanding the release of the participant of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, coordinator of the opposition Armenian civil initiative ‘Founding Parliament’ Zhirayr Sefilyan.
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