136 citizens taken into police custody after night turmoil in Yerevan
YEREVAN, July 21. /ARKA/. As a results of clashed that broke this night between the police and protesters near the seized police regiment building in Yerevan, 136 citizens have been captured and taken into police custody.
The police told ARKA News Agency that all the detained in Khorenatsi Street and nearby areas are now in police stations.
Tension around the police regiment building escalated when people around the building demanded that the police solve the meal problem of hostage takers inside the building and let Nikol Pashinyan, an opposition MP and the of Civil Contract Party leader, in for passing on meals to the rebels, but received no answer.
An armed group stormed a police station in Armenia's capital Yerevan on Sunday and took some officers hostage, demanding the release of Zhirayr Sefilian, the jailed opposition leader of Founding Parliament movement, and the resign of the president.
According to the police, one police officer had been killed and five others and one attacker wounded in the assault.
Later, some hostages were released as a result of intense negotiations.
Two top police officials, deputy police chief Vardan Egiazaryan and Yerevan deputy police chief Valery Osipyan, are among four officers who remain captured.
Hundreds of people gathered around the building to bar the law enforcement units from storming the building and to prevent а bloody outcome.
This night the police units cleaned up the territory of protesters and detained dozens of people.
As many as 51 people injured in the clashes, including 28 policemen, received medical services this night. --0----
The police told ARKA News Agency that all the detained in Khorenatsi Street and nearby areas are now in police stations.
Tension around the police regiment building escalated when people around the building demanded that the police solve the meal problem of hostage takers inside the building and let Nikol Pashinyan, an opposition MP and the of Civil Contract Party leader, in for passing on meals to the rebels, but received no answer.
An armed group stormed a police station in Armenia's capital Yerevan on Sunday and took some officers hostage, demanding the release of Zhirayr Sefilian, the jailed opposition leader of Founding Parliament movement, and the resign of the president.
According to the police, one police officer had been killed and five others and one attacker wounded in the assault.
Later, some hostages were released as a result of intense negotiations.
Two top police officials, deputy police chief Vardan Egiazaryan and Yerevan deputy police chief Valery Osipyan, are among four officers who remain captured.
Hundreds of people gathered around the building to bar the law enforcement units from storming the building and to prevent а bloody outcome.
This night the police units cleaned up the territory of protesters and detained dozens of people.
As many as 51 people injured in the clashes, including 28 policemen, received medical services this night. --0----