Leading Armenian opposition parties on Tuesday strongly condemned the violent dispersal of an overnight anti-government demonstration in Yerevan and demanded the immediate release of scores of its participants detained by police.
Lawmakers representing one of those parties, Armenian National Congress (HAK), also boycotted a parliament session in protest against the crackdown on civic activists campaigning against a further increase in electricity prices.
"We demand that the detainees be immediately freed and that those who took the illegal actions against them be punished," the HAK's Aram Manukian declared before he and his colleagues walked out of the parliament auditorium.
Another opposition parliamentarian, Nikol Pashinian, said he will protest against the crackdown by voting against any motion that will be put by the Armenian government or its loyal majority in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
Armenian News
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