Tuesday, 13 April, 2004  
[ last updated 17:04 ]
The offices of two leading Armenian opposition parties were seized by police and their leaders went into hiding on Tuesday. The police also cut short a news conference by two other opposition leaders who vowed to continue to fight for President Robert Kocharian’s resignation. (UPDATED)
[ last updated 17:07 ]
Police brutality reached a new height in Armenia on Tuesday when four journalists covering the heavy-handed government response to an opposition demonstration were beaten up and badly injured by security forces.
[ last updated 02:51 ]
Armenia’s opposition faced the worst ever government crackdown in the early hours of Tuesday after its peaceful demonstration in Yerevan was brutally dispersed by security forces using water cannons and stun grenades.
[ last updated 17:10 ]
Raffi Hovannisian, Armenia’s U.S.-born former foreign minister, blamed on Tuesday President Robert Kocharian for bloodshed in the previous night’s opposition demonstration, describing him as an “adversary of liberty and right.”
[ last updated 17:12 ]
Turkey Tuesday lent support for a gradual approach to resolving a long-standing feud between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.





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