ARMENIAN POLICE ARREST SUPPORTERS OF LEVON TER-PETROSYAN
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 24 2007
Armenian law-enforcement bodies arrested the oppositionists calling people to rally.
APA reports that editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper Nikol Pashinyan, Democratic Fatherland party leader Petros Makeyan, Conservative Party leader Mikael Hayrapetyan, editor-in-chief of Fourth Power opposition newspaper Shoher Matevosyan and some others are among the detainees.
They delivered leaflets calling people to participate in rallies to support Armenia's first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
There was a confrontation between the oppositionists and the police.
20 were injured as a result of it. The detainees were released after they gave a written undertaking not to leave the country.
Ter-Petrosyan's supporters will hold a sanctioned rally in Yerevan on October 26.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Stepan Demirchiyan and Aram Sarkisian are expected to deliver speech. The ruling party organized a free concert with participation of Armenian stars in Yerevan Republic stadium on the same day.
Oct 24 2007
Armenian law-enforcement bodies arrested the oppositionists calling people to rally.
APA reports that editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper Nikol Pashinyan, Democratic Fatherland party leader Petros Makeyan, Conservative Party leader Mikael Hayrapetyan, editor-in-chief of Fourth Power opposition newspaper Shoher Matevosyan and some others are among the detainees.
They delivered leaflets calling people to participate in rallies to support Armenia's first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan.
There was a confrontation between the oppositionists and the police.
20 were injured as a result of it. The detainees were released after they gave a written undertaking not to leave the country.
Ter-Petrosyan's supporters will hold a sanctioned rally in Yerevan on October 26.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Stepan Demirchiyan and Aram Sarkisian are expected to deliver speech. The ruling party organized a free concert with participation of Armenian stars in Yerevan Republic stadium on the same day.
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