Nikol Pashinyan initiating emergency session of Armenian National Assembly
28.07.2016,
16:09
Nikol Pahisnyan, an opposition member of the Armenian National Assembly, is initiating an extraordinary session in connection with the seizure of the police regiment territory in Yerevan.
YEREVAN, July 28. /ARKA/. Nikol Pahisnyan, an opposition member of the Armenian National Assembly, is initiating an extraordinary session in connection with the seizure of the police regiment territory in Yerevan.
“If you have contacts with MPs, then call them, write them, ask them and demand to sign the demand to convene an emergency session,” Pashinyan says on his Facebook page.
He says that the deadline of collection of signatures is 17:00 today.
In the first days after the territory seizure, Pashinyan met with the revolted men and spoke in rallies calling for a peaceful struggle against the present authorities.
However, when one of the rebels wanted Pashinyan ‘to stop using the movement in his narrow inetersts’, the opposition lawmaker said that he never want to run and coordinate the movement.
Sasna Dzrer armed group stormed the police regiment territory and seized it on July 17. The group took some officers hostage, demanding the release of Zhirayr Sefilian, the jailed opposition leader of Founding Parliament movement, and the resignation of the president.
According to the police, one police officer had been killed and five others and one attacker wounded in the assault.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the territory to bar the law enforcement units from storming the building and to prevent а bloody outcome.
The police units cleaned up the territory of demonstrators Wednesday night and detained dozens of people.
As many as 51 people injured in the clashes, including 28 policemen, received medical services that night. On the next day people gathered again.
All the hostages have gradually been released by the rebels.
Thousands of people took to the streets on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Yerevan and marched demanding the release of Zhirair Sefilian and the resignation of the president.
Tuesday night the Sasna Dzrer leader Pavel Manukyan and his son Aram were wounded by the police and they are now in a hospital under intensive care. One policeman was wounded as well. --0----
“If you have contacts with MPs, then call them, write them, ask them and demand to sign the demand to convene an emergency session,” Pashinyan says on his Facebook page.
He says that the deadline of collection of signatures is 17:00 today.
In the first days after the territory seizure, Pashinyan met with the revolted men and spoke in rallies calling for a peaceful struggle against the present authorities.
However, when one of the rebels wanted Pashinyan ‘to stop using the movement in his narrow inetersts’, the opposition lawmaker said that he never want to run and coordinate the movement.
Sasna Dzrer armed group stormed the police regiment territory and seized it on July 17. The group took some officers hostage, demanding the release of Zhirayr Sefilian, the jailed opposition leader of Founding Parliament movement, and the resignation of the president.
According to the police, one police officer had been killed and five others and one attacker wounded in the assault.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the territory to bar the law enforcement units from storming the building and to prevent а bloody outcome.
The police units cleaned up the territory of demonstrators Wednesday night and detained dozens of people.
As many as 51 people injured in the clashes, including 28 policemen, received medical services that night. On the next day people gathered again.
All the hostages have gradually been released by the rebels.
Thousands of people took to the streets on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Yerevan and marched demanding the release of Zhirair Sefilian and the resignation of the president.
Tuesday night the Sasna Dzrer leader Pavel Manukyan and his son Aram were wounded by the police and they are now in a hospital under intensive care. One policeman was wounded as well. --0----
