The Founding Parliament said on Wednesday that its nonstop anti-government protests in Yerevan will start as planned on April 24 despite the arrests of six leading members of the radical opposition movement.
Founding Parliament activists made this clear as they rallied outside a detention center in the Armenian capital to demand the release of the group's top leader, Zhirayr Sefilian, and his five close associates.
"We have already managed to overcome a state of shock. This situation was predictable to us," one of them, Vartan Hakobian, told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azautyun.am).
Law-enforcement authorities detained the six men and searched their homes and offices on Tuesday, accusing them of planning to provoke "mass disturbances" during the April 24 high-profile commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey. The authorities have to formally charge or free them by Friday.
Armenian News
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