OPPOSITION RALLY IN GYUMRI ENDED IN DISORDERS AND ARRESTS

29.03.2004 18:49

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Sunday rally of the Justice opposition bloc in Gyumri
ended in disorders and arrests. As representative of Hanrapetutyun party, MP
Smbat Ayvazian told Arminfo agency, a group of women with anti-opposition
placards tried to wreck the rally. The opposition activists took the
placards away and forced them out of the area. Some young people trying to
defend the women started a fight. Ayvazian says that the police arrested
exclusively oppositionists. In his words, 4 representatives of the
Hanrapetutyun party are in custody at present.