Police officer breaks protester’s arm in Yerevan

Panorama
Armenia – May 17 2022

A police officer broke a man’s arm at peaceful protests in Yerevan on Tuesday morning, lawyer Amram Makinyan said in a Facebook post, also sharing photos.

“The police officer in the photo has broken the arm of citizen Mher Stepanyan. The latter has been taken to hospital,” the lawyer wrote.

Opposition protests demanding that PM Nikol Pashinyan step down resumed in Yerevan early on Tuesday morning, with activists blocking more than 50 streets in the capital. The police used force to detain many of them.