Authorities tightened security at state-run universities in Yerevan on Monday as more than a hundred students boycotted classes and took to the streets to demand a rerun of last week's presidential election.
The protesters supporting opposition candidate Raffi Hovannisian rallied outside several universities, urging fellow students to join the boycott. "We are calling on you to join this movement," one of their leaders shouted through a megaphone outside Yerevan State University (YSU), the starting point of the protests.
"This [opposition] movement has no concrete political orientation, it's everybody's fight," he said. "We all know well who won these elections. The people won these elections."
"I'm against vote falsifications. This is my civic position," another participant told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am).
Armenian News
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