Dozens of anti-Pashinyan protesters detained by police in central Yerevan

14:27, 24 December, 2020

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. 69 protesters rallying outside the government headquarters in Yerevan as part of the Homeland Salvation Movement have been detained by police.

“As of this moment 69 citizens have been detained by police,” the Deputy Director of the Press Department of the Police told ARMENPRESS. He said the demonstrators have been taken to police for committing administrative offenses.

The Homeland Salvation Movement, created by various political parties, is holding civil disobedience demonstrations in central Yerevan demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS