Women’s Day Protest
The Armenian Observer reports on a small gathering outside the general prosecutor’s office in Yerevan to protest the imprisonment of their male relatives following the 1 March post-election clashes between the opposition and police. The event was staged to mark Motherhood and Beauty Day and the post also includes a video.
Women were in black clothes, some wearing also black scarves although some were displeased with that, “Take off your scarves – what has happened to your relatives? You will wear black scarves on April 9, as a tribute to the victims.”
They were chanting Le-von, Free-dom… Police was not impeding – they were just regularly asking people to get out of the streets and standing on the pavements, for security reasons.
- Published:
- 04.08.08 / 10am by Onnik
- Category:
- Armenia, Armenia Presidential Election 2008, Arrests, Blogs, Demonstrations, Gender, News Briefs, Opinion, Rallies, Revolution, State of Emergency
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