Two participants of the sit-in, Vahagn Minasyan and Suren Sahakyan, were arrested near the Yerevan City Hall.
The only witness of the event was an activist Arthur Chilingaryan. He told that the police officers pulling two activists made them get into car only after when they switched on the loudspeaker which on automatic mode was continuously repeating, “We demand that the municipality removes the criminal elements.”
Arthur Chilingaryan said that the police officers have told that the voice of the loudspeaker was hindering the work of the City Hall and this was the reason why the activists were taken to the police station.
He also said that the «Republican party grandmother» was at the City Hall since morning, who continually offended, insulted, and hit the activists with her walking stick. And was constantly taking the posters installed in front of the City Hall and throwing them into the street.
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Chilingaryan told that after detaining the activists, a black car stood in front of the City Hall, and “perhaps, the son of an oligarch came out of the car, began to curse, and then spitted on the car and getting back into the car, left. The police officers, as always during the important cases, were not here.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
