Police dispersed opposition rally in Yerevan

Police dispersed opposition rally in Yerevan

PanARMENIAN.Net
01.03.2008 08:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today, at 7 a.m. the RA Police dispersed the
opposition rally in Liberty Square in the center of Yerevan. Witnesses
say several thousand people were at the site during the operation.
Policemen used rubber batons.

A source told PanARMENIAN.Net that leader of the opposition movement,
Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who also was in the
square, is now under domiciliary arrest.

Oppositionists plan a new rally at 3 p.m. today. If the entry to
Liberty Square is closed, they are going to march down Mashtots Avenue.

Opposition forces, discontent with outcomes of the presidential
election, have been holding rallies for 10 days already, demanding
to declare the election invalid.