As we had informed, yesterday, in the evening, the police apprehended 10 civil activists dismantling the gates of the Afrikyan’s building. Sipan Pashinyan was among the detainees, who generally was not associated with the gates of the Afrikyan’s building and had not participated in any protest on that day. He just had gone to the police station to learn some news about his friends, but the police had immediately arrested him, and had seized the phone from his hands, the wallet, bank cards, the whole money and had filed a criminal case by Article 185 of the Criminal Code. In the conversation with Aravot.am, Sipan Pashinyan told what had happened, “After being apprehended near the Kentron Police station, the policemen did not justify their behavior in any way and did not say why they had apprehended him.
They confiscated everything, my driver’s license, bank cards, business cards, everything that I had with me, 12 thousand drams. They left nothing with me.” Sipan Pashinyan said that the police did not use impose brute force specifically to him, he did not let them to apprehend him by beating. “My friends are injured, Artak’s arm is broken and scratched. I do not know whether they are seriously injured, or not.” To our question of whether he is planning to make a complaint against the police, he responded, “Of course, I was apprehended completely unsubstantiated. I regret for not participating in the protest, I was just busy. Then I was called and told that my friends were apprehended, I went to the police station. Three minutes later after I got off the car, I was apprehended and without saying a word they got me. Only 2 hours later, after long fights and quarreling, they allowed me to call home and let them know that I am in the police station. They wanted to take my fingerprints, we refused, they took our photos, and wrote down a protocol, I do not know why. Now, I am in the status of a suspect for intentional damaging of someone’s property.”
