PROTEST ACTIONS RESUME SEVERAL HOURS AFTER EMERGENCY RULE LIFT

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.03.2008 16:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Several hours after the lift of the state of
emergency, hundreds of Yerevan citizens with candles, black ribbons
and portraits of those arrested and killed on March 1 and 2 took the
streets toward Liberty Square. Their march was stopped by policemen
armed with batons and shields, who surrounded the Square.

Presently, the number of demonstrators doesn’t exceed a thousand,
mostly women and youth.

Silent protest march is expected to extend from Liberty Square up
to the monument to Alexander Myasnikyan at the French Embassy. The
demonstrators are instructed not to block the traffic, walk at 1-meter
distance and have a photo of a political prisoner and candles. They
were also told to tape the mouth to protest limitations on media
freedom.

The action initiators called not to yield to provocation and refrain
from offending policemen and journalists, Armenia Today reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress