In the aftermath of the incident, the RoA police issued a statement according to which 34 police officers and 16 civilians were taken to various healthcare facilities. 11 protesters were forcibly taken to police departments and one criminal case was instituted .
Moscow, Baku and Yerevan discussed and brought closer their positions on issues of border, customs and other types of control following the 10th meeting of the trilateral working group held on Friday under the joint chairmanship of Deputy Prime Ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia Alexei Overchuk, Shahin Mustafayev and Mher Grigoryan.
Dominique Pradalié from France, member of the National Union of Journalists (SNJ), was elected President of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on 2 June 2022 at the 31st IFJ Congress in Muscat, Oman. After six years on the IFJ Executive Committee, Dominique Pradalié succeeds Younes Mjahed from Morocco.
On the occasion of the Republic Day, on behalf of the Third President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, a wreath was laid at the Memorial dedicated to the heroes of the Sardarapat Battle.
“It is too late to talk about international pressure to return the captives today. When the territories were returned after the signing of the November 9 declaration, but the confirmed prisoners were not repatriated, the human rights organizations, including local NGOs, began to make a fuss. Instead of supporting these efforts, the Armenian authorities criticized or spread false information to the families of the prisoners that the international publicization of the issue would harm the process, the interests of the captive men,” said the representative of the Armenian prisoners at the ECHR, adding that only two years later that there were no threats, moreover, the opposite actions of the Armenian authorities contributed to the longer delay of their repatriation process.
European Council President Charles Michel released a statement after hosting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for trilateral talks in Brussels.
The third president of Armenia, RPA leader Serzh Sargsyan has already created an account on Instagram.
Police are using unprecedented brute force against violent protesters who resumed early this morning, using violence – bodily serious injuries to the participants of the peaceful actions. The Red Berets (the special forces of the RA Police) beat one of the protesters thus the citizen fainted because of the blow.
The vice president of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Armen Ashotyan was detained at the intersection of Moskovyan and Teryan streets by using brute force. As it is known, this morning the opposition started large-scale peaceful disobedience in the streets of Yerevan.
The Freedom House human rights organization made tweet calling on the police of Armenia to refrain using force. “We are disturbed by violence taking place during protests targeting journalists, public figures, and ordinary citizens in #Armenia. We appeal to the people to exercise their fundamental rights peacefully and call on the police to refrain from using disproportionate force. The Armenian authorities and the opposition must respect the unobstructed functioning of democratic and human rights institutions, including civil society and the media, necessary to guarantee the rights of all citizens in the line with democratic norms and standards”,- tweeted Freedom House.
