PROTESTER DRAGGED OUT OF TENT
05:25 pm | May 09, 2012 | Social
Artavazd Vardanyan, who has been staging a hunger strike outside the
Central Election Commission for a few days now, today was banned from
erecting a tent in the area.
At first, pol ice officers demanded that the protester show the
municipality’s permission. Later, when deputy chief of Yerevan Police
Robert Melkonyan arrived, Vardanyan was dragged out of the tent. The
tent was removed from the vicinity of the CEC building.
Artavazd Vardanyan, an adherent of the Sardarapat movement initiative,
started the hunger strike six days ago, claiming that elections
never introduce any changes in Armenia. He calls on the society and
intellectual circles to concentrate their attention on possible ways
towards creating an alternative regime.
Members of the initiative are also near the CEC building.
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