A group of lecturers and other employees of the Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU) will join the nationwide strike called by Armenia’s opposition forces on Tuesday, December 22, YSMU Chief of Staff Shushan Danielyan said on Monday.

“Several lecturers and employees at the Yerevan State Medical University have informed that they will join the December 22 strike. It’s their constitutional right, which no one is entitled to take away from them,” she wrote on Facebook.

“The most important thing is that the university is an apolitical structure. The university administration has never used and will never use administrative leverage against its employees,”  Danielyan said, adding people are free to exercise their rights.