A court in Yerevan has fined four environmental activists for scuffling with police during recent protests against the controversial construction of kiosks in a small public park in the city center.
The activists are members of a self-styled "dismantling brigade" that joined dozens of young Armenians who held daily demonstrations in Mashtots Park earlier this year. On April 15 they broke through police barriers in an attempt to tear down the incomplete structures. The police used force to push them out.
The incident took place two weeks before President Serzh Sarkisian told municipal authorities to remove the more than one dozen kiosks built in the park, saying they are "not quite nice." The activists, among them filmmaker Tigran Khzmalian and political analyst Manvel Sargsian, were taken to court despite that.
Armenian News
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