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In line with reviews, there are not any extra locations to accommodate detainees within the police stations.
Amongst these detained are members of the Nationwide Meeting of Armenia, well-known singers within the nation and a well-liked physician.
The police tried to detain Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, the chief of the opposition motion “For the Motherland”, however the protesters didn’t permit the police to take action.
Demonstrations in Armenia started early Monday morning following Galstanyan’s name.
On Monday, in a dialog with journalists, Archbishop Galstanyan of the Armenian Apostolic Church of Tavusha stated that he retains his religious place, though he has quickly suspended his religious service.
He additionally defined that the motion he was concerned in was not a political one, however a nationwide liberation motion.
Galstanyan, as he had beforehand promised, blocked the highway in Yerevan on Monday morning with 4 SUVs. Protesters additionally blocked a number of different streets of Yerevan.
Demonstrators additionally blocked roads from Yerevan to Armavir, Ashtarak, Sevan and Gyumri.
Armenia on Friday returned to Azerbaijan 4 villages it had captured within the Nineties, because the neighboring nations proceed their efforts to normalize relations.
Armenia and Azerbaijan reached an settlement this month on disputed sections of the border.
The settlement envisages the return to Azerbaijan of 4 border villages that Armenia took beneath its management within the Nineties.
Azerbaijan seized the decades-old “de facto” impartial Armenian republic of Nagorno-Karabakh in a blitzkrieg final yr, forcing all of its greater than 100,000 residents to flee.
Armenia has agreed to return to Azerbaijan the territories that Yerevan has managed because the Nineties to be able to obtain a peace settlement and keep away from one other bloody battle.
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