Students of Armenian universities marching peacefully in Yerevan
23.04.2018,
11:12
Students of Armenian higher education establishments are on strike now.
YEREVAN, April 23. /ARKA/. Students of Armenian higher education establishments are on strike now.
They are marching peacefully along Yerevan streets calling on professors to join their protest actions, which are peaceful.
Many are even urging students to march silently not to disturb public order. The marches are accompanied with storms of applause, hisses and car honks.
Mass protests broke out in Yerevan on April 13, which developed into civil unrest. Armenian people have revolted against the third term of Serzh Sargsyan’ staying in power.
On April 17, Nikol Pashinyan announced the beginning of a velvet revolution, which will rid the country of Serzh Sargsyan’s regime, and protesters blockaded buildings of government establishments.
He warned people against responding to the provocations ordered for hindering the peaceful course of the protests and trigger clashes between protesters and the police.
In its statement, the police department, calling these actions illegal, says that the protesters divided into many groups are blocking traffic and “disturbing people hampering them to move in transportation means”.
The police department has repeatedly threatened the demonstrators.
The leader of the opposition parliamentary faction Yelk Nikol Pashinyan, who has been leading anti-government protests since April 13, told his supporters to continue rallies after fruitless five-minute talks with Serzh Sargsyan, prime minister, at the Marriot-Armenia Hotel Sunday morning.
Serzh Sargsyan described the protest actions of the opposition as blackmail and warned that all the responsibility for their continuation would fall on Pashinyan. He said the Yelk faction had no right to speak on behalf of all the citizens, saying also Pashinyan did not learn the lesson of March 1, 2008 ( when ten protesters were killed during a mass demonstration against Sargsyan’s election as president).
"I came here to discuss your resignation," Pashinyan retorted.
"This is not a dialogue, this is blackmail," Sargsyan said before retiring from the meeting room.
A little later, three MPs were detained.
According to prosecutors, Nikol Pashinyan and two other lawmakers were suspected of committing “socially dangerous acts”.
They said the lawmakers were detained in order “to prevent holding of a meeting in violation of the procedure established by law as part of a criminal case initiated by the Special Investigative Service”. -0--
They are marching peacefully along Yerevan streets calling on professors to join their protest actions, which are peaceful.
Many are even urging students to march silently not to disturb public order. The marches are accompanied with storms of applause, hisses and car honks.
Mass protests broke out in Yerevan on April 13, which developed into civil unrest. Armenian people have revolted against the third term of Serzh Sargsyan’ staying in power.
On April 17, Nikol Pashinyan announced the beginning of a velvet revolution, which will rid the country of Serzh Sargsyan’s regime, and protesters blockaded buildings of government establishments.
He warned people against responding to the provocations ordered for hindering the peaceful course of the protests and trigger clashes between protesters and the police.
In its statement, the police department, calling these actions illegal, says that the protesters divided into many groups are blocking traffic and “disturbing people hampering them to move in transportation means”.
The police department has repeatedly threatened the demonstrators.
The leader of the opposition parliamentary faction Yelk Nikol Pashinyan, who has been leading anti-government protests since April 13, told his supporters to continue rallies after fruitless five-minute talks with Serzh Sargsyan, prime minister, at the Marriot-Armenia Hotel Sunday morning.
Serzh Sargsyan described the protest actions of the opposition as blackmail and warned that all the responsibility for their continuation would fall on Pashinyan. He said the Yelk faction had no right to speak on behalf of all the citizens, saying also Pashinyan did not learn the lesson of March 1, 2008 ( when ten protesters were killed during a mass demonstration against Sargsyan’s election as president).
"I came here to discuss your resignation," Pashinyan retorted.
"This is not a dialogue, this is blackmail," Sargsyan said before retiring from the meeting room.
A little later, three MPs were detained.
According to prosecutors, Nikol Pashinyan and two other lawmakers were suspected of committing “socially dangerous acts”.
They said the lawmakers were detained in order “to prevent holding of a meeting in violation of the procedure established by law as part of a criminal case initiated by the Special Investigative Service”. -0--
