2008-03-01 08:49:00

Protesters in Liberty Square dispersed

ArmInfo. Armenian Special Services officers dispersed the opposition rally led by the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan earlier in the morning on March 1. ArmInfo correspondent on the spot reports that Special Services troops have surrounded the Liberty Square. The traffic in the city center is blocked. Journalists are not allowed to the Liberty Square. Law- enforcers are currently removing the tents of the protesters from the square. Witnesses say police applied batons, electric jolts and other special means. All this resulted in mess in the square. By unofficial data, hundreds of people were harmed. It is noteworthy that approximately at 7:00am Levon Ter-Petrosyan informed the protesters of the possible dispersal and urged them not to panic, stay in the place and do not conflict with the police. After the dispersal, the ex-president was let. The ex-president demanded the police a relevant order for the dispersal of demonstration. He is still in the square. A large group of people is near the square area and protests against the actions of law-enforcers.

The action of protest lasted 10 days from February 20. President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, the Police and the Municipality had repeatedly warned the protesters that their action is illegal and application of force is possible. However, protesters ignored these warnings.

2008-03-01 09:52:00 Police and special services patrolling Yerevan Liberty Square

ArmInfo. Police and special services are patrolling the Liberty Square in the

The police block all the nearby streets. Hundreds of police officers and servicemen, the so-called “red berets” and officers of special services, as well as fire machines are in the square.

Lt. Colonel of the Police, who did not want to name himself, told ArmInfo that two police officers were harmed when scattering the demonstration in the Liberty Square earlier in the morning today. ‘I am not informed if there were injured among the protesters. I don’t care for them. We will clean the square, complete the operative investigation and open it’, he said.

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Police dispersed opposition rally in Yerevan

01.03.2008 08:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today, at 7 a.m. the RA Police dispersed the opposition rally in Liberty Square in the center of Yerevan. Witnesses say several thousand people were at the site during the operation. Policemen used rubber batons.

A source told PanARMENIAN.Net that leader of the opposition movement, Armenia’s first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who also was in the square, is now under domiciliary arrest.

Oppositionists plan a new rally at 3 p.m. today. If the entry to Liberty Square is closed, they are going to march down Mashtots Avenue.

Opposition forces, discontent with outcomes of the presidential election, have been holding rallies for 10 days already, demanding to declare the election invalid.

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