“The inmates’ demand was met last week. They have not presented other demands,” Gor Ghlechyan added.

Sergey Danielyan has his solution to the problem. “When you are offered a product, do not buy it. Let our citizens turn off lights in homes, offices and factories for several hours a day. It will not harm our citizens but the ENA will lose large amounts of money,” he says.

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“Let us hope that there will be sufficient number of volunteers, including members of parliament, lawyers, intellectuals and journalists, who will again visit the standoff site in order to exclude violence there.

The situation is relatively calm on the avenue, with police weakening their cordon which means no clashes are possible in the coming hours.

However, the bloc’s proposal was rejected. Members of the Barev Yerevan boycotted the sitting and went to Baghramyan Avenue to join the protesters there.

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Considering the fact that many citizens cannot participate in the sit-in against energy price hike because of their work, the No to Plunder initiative calls on everyone to join the protest in some other way.

Mr Margaryan speaks about the Baghramyan standoff, the ongoing protests against the rise in electricity tariffs and the possible outcome.

An investigation is underway in connection with the incidents of violence against media representatives who were injured during the protests against electricity price hikes.

“It was decided to destroy any evidence about the crackdown on Bagramyan Avenue. This was an attack on freedom of information,” he said.

The Democratic Fatherland Party condemns the June 23 crackdown on peaceful demonstrators who were staging a protest on Baghramyan Avenue against ‘the state-level plunder’, specifically the public regulator’s decision to raise energy prices by 7 drams.

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People staging a protest on Baghramyan Avenue have only one demand. They want Serzh Sargsyan to order to revoke two decisions of the Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) on raising electricity tariffs in Armenia.

Scores of people, including lawmakers, intellectuals, lawyers, clergymen, representatives of show business have responded to Armenian lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan’s appeal

We should exclude the use of violence at any cost,” Pashinyan said adding that he was making the statement on behalf of a number of people, inlcuding actors, lawmakers, lawyers, journalists, showmen, etc.

A group of activists are now considering the option of meeting Serzh Sargsyan to present their demand concerning the decision to raise electricity prices for Armenian consumers by about 7 drams.

Demonstrators have placed garbage bins between the citizens and policemen.

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Mr Nils Muižnieks published a reaction to the events in Yerevan this morning.

It is important to ensure an impartial investigation of these events and to immediately release the detained peaceful protestors.

It isn’t excluded that after they have come, again march will be organized to the Presidential Palace. By the way, the statement about the march caused a stir among the policemen. They outpaced by several cars to reach to the Presidential Palace.

Mobilization campaign is starting at Liberty Square with the demand to revoke the decision on electricity price increase.

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said journalists’ safety must be ensured at all times, following recent incidents and coercive actions by police against journalists covering public protest in Yerevan, Armenia.

Levon Martirosyan was the only deputy from the HHK faction, who was disappointed about the failure of young protesters, “It is another bad precedent in the sense that in the future if people want to protest, they will remember the previous incidents, these events that they protested and nothing came out of it.”