In Yerevan, the police dispersed a demonstration of protest

Armenia police pushed off the roads of Bagramyan Avenue in the center of Yerevan demonstrators who protested against raising electricity tariffs, Panorama.am reports . At the same time, 48 people were detained.

On Friday evening, at a rally on Freedom Square, there were no robbery civil traffic activists that they resumed street protests. “We decided to go out again and fight with all legal methods, demanding the cancellation of the decision to increase tariffs. We only go to cancel the decision. Let's go to the end,” said the activist of the movement Maxim Sargsyan. Then the demonstrators blocked the central Bagramyan Avenue.

Valery Osipyan, deputy police chief of Yerevan, arrived there. He said to the loudspeaker that the participants in the action had violated the previously stated route of the procession.

"Despite the numerous warning of the police, the participants in the action continue to block one of the central arteries of the city. The police states that any form of realization of the right to freedom of assembly must comply with the Constitution of Armenia, the Law on Freedom of Assembly and other legal acts, and the right to freedom of assembly cannot and cannot have absolute nature. In a democratic society, the meeting may be limited in the interests of compliance with public order and protection of the rights and freedoms of others Citizens, ”Osipyan said.

The police gave demonstrators the time until 4 a.m. (5:00 Moscow time) to voluntarily unlock the avenue. After the expiration of the ultimatum, the police began to replace the demonstrators from the roadway. The resistant was delayed. No special equipment was used, there are no injured. Then, with the help of a water -track, the police washed the roadway of the street.

After drawing up acts on an administrative offense, all detainees were released.

Acceleration of the demonstration in Yerevan. Video Report Panoramamamtv

Mass protests began throughout Armenia, after on June 17, the Armenian public services regulation commission increased the electricity tariff in the country by 6.93 drama ($ 0.015) per 1 kilowatt-hour. The company itself demanded to raise prices even higher - by 17 drams.

This decision led to spontaneous demonstrations in Yerevan and other cities. A sedentary demonstration began in Yerevan on June 19. On June 22, protesters moved to the Presidential Palace . The police did not miss them, and then the demonstrators blocked Bagramyan Avenue. The police brutally dispersed the protesters. 237 people were detained.

On June 23, the demonstrators again tried to go to the Presidential Palace. This time the police also blocked their way, but there was no dispersal. The protests continued in the second largest city in Armenia - Gyumri, and also began in other cities .

On June 26, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan following a meeting with the Minister of Transport of Russia, the co-chairman of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission, Maxim Sokolov, said that an audit would be held in the "electric networks of Armenia". He also said that the case of the murder by the Russian soldier-world Valery Permykov seven people in Gyumri was transferred to the Armenian side . Earlier, Russia refused to issue the accused, referring to its constitution.

After that, part of the demonstrators stopped the protest. However, some participants in the movement stated that the action would continue. In early July, they blocked Bagramyan Avenue and built barricades from garbage tanks. On July 6, the police dismantled the barricades and opened the avenue for the movement of cars. Violence for demonstrators who tried to stay on the roadway after dismantling the barricades was not applied. 46 people were detained, but soon released from the police.