[ last updated 17:02 ] The Armenian authorities, bracing for an opposition offensive, have renewed their recourse to wholesale arrests of people attending opposition rallies -- a practice repeatedly condemned by the Council of Europe and other international organizations.
[ last updated 17:06 ] The Armenian leadership showed Tuesday no signs of impending punishment for violent youths that attacked journalists at an opposition rally in Yerevan, despite a barrage of criticism and condemnations from the country’s leading media associations.
[ last updated 17:01 ] “It is evident who will be using violence during and after the joint opposition rally to be held on April 9 -- bodyguards who ostensibly have no connection with the authorities but are in fact directly guided by high-ranking officers of the security bodies,” writes “Iravunk.”
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