POLICE DISPERSE MASHTOTS PARK ACTIVISTS
Sona Avagyan

hetq
12:50, February 17, 2012

Earlier today, around 70 police showed up at Mashtots Park in Yerevan
and dispersed a crowd of activists who had been staging a picket to
protest the construction of stores in the public green space.

Yerevan Police Chief Nerses Nazaryan was on hand when the cops evicted
the protestors and got into a debate with Heritage Party MP Zaruhie
Postanjyan, who argued that the construction was illegal.

Zaven Arakelyan, Head of the Yerevan Municipality’s Department of
Legal Affairs, then pulled out a bunch of papers that he claimed were
permits for the construction.

The police chief then got on the phone for instructions from
higher-ups.