Police officers push media representative to the ground at opposition protest in Yerevan

Panorama, Armenia

Feb 23 2021

Police officers pushed Sputnik Armenia photographer Aram Nersesyan to the ground while detaining opposition activists during a protest organized by the opposition Homeland Salvation Movement in Yerevan on Tuesday morning.

As reported earlier, police used brute force on the activists at the protest against PM Nikol Pashinyan outside the third government building, with reporters covering the civil disobedience act also being affected in the process.

Photos released by reporter Aksanna Hayrapetyan show photographer Aram Nersesyan lying on the ground. Fortunately, he suffered no injuries.

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