Security forces backed up by a powerful water cannon used force to unblock Marshal Bagramian Avenue at the end of a nine-hour standoff with mostly young demonstrators demanding that the Armenian authorities revoke a more than 16 percent rise in the energy tariffs. Only a few hundred of them remained camped out there by that time.
A few hours ago, 237 people, including journalists, were detained on Baghramyan street. They were detained while performing their professional duties, their cameras were smashed. Senior police officials have confiscated the memory cards [of their cameras]
A man of 40 was beaten and detained by Armenian police. As a result of the beating, the man is unable to remember his own name, Hetq.am reported.
A video, uploaded to Facebook by user Suzanne Simonyan, shows Armenian police and men in plainclothes chasing, brutally beating, and detaining on Tuesday participants of the protest sit-in on Baghramyan Avenue against the hike in electricity prices in Armenia.
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