POLICE DISPERSE MASHTOTS PARK ACTIVISTS
Sona Avagyan
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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.
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