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Armenian police launch criminal proceedings against opposition protesters

Law enforcement authorities have opened criminal cases against more than a dozen participants of protests calling for the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.  Police have arrested hundreds of people on charges of hooliganism and violence since the start of mass protests on April 25. The two parliamentary opposition factions, the Armenia Allia

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Lillian Avedian

Lillian Avedian is the assistant editor of the Armenian Weekly. She reports on international women's rights, South Caucasus politics, and diasporic identity. Her writing has also been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Democracy in Exile, and Girls on Key Press. She holds master's degrees in journalism and Near Eastern studies from New York University.

4 Comments

  1. Pashinian needs to go. He threw Armenia back many decades if not a century. He is responsible for the outcome of war, the Armenian luves list, and he has been persecuting the Armenians citizens who oppose to his views. That cannot be tolerated.

  2. What on earth is “hooliganism”, do you people have follow russia’s propaganda in Armenia too, we know that Armenia’s government is a puppet of kremlin and past 30 + years every head of Armenian government were controlled by kremlin, but it’s time to wake up and smell the roses.

  3. Any Citizen who breaks the laws of the Republic must be arrested for disturbing the peaceful daily life of the Citizens of Armenia. In Russia such citizens who break the laws WILL DISAPPEAR. In Turkey the outlawed Turk will be locked up without any trial. In the case of ARMENIAN HOOLIGAN CITIZENS, watch out our ENEMIES, TURKS AND AZERIS, ARE WATCHING. Armenians SHOULD AND REPECT THE “WILL OF THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS”. If you don’t like the Rules or the Government policies, VOTE TO CHANGE. HOOLIGANISM SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE IN THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA.

  4. Mary Mourad,” What is a hooliganism”?
    When a person (Nikol) leads a crowd, armed with knives, pistols, brass knuckles, AK-47, Molotov Cocktail, and orders to retaliate against the law enforcement, killing 2, destroys and turns the city of Yerevan into rubbles, that is called ” hooliganism”. Maybe you should Google and read, the March 1 2008 Chaos, created by none other, Captain disaster and former CONVICT, Nikol Pashinyan. Today, he’s the Prime Minister of Armenia, but in reality he is the Prime SINISTER of Armenia, a person who will cause something evil or harm, that’s him. Last week, an event took place in Yerevan, called the Armenian Forum of Democracy, the entire NA members of CP were in attendance, in addition to a special guest, Ambassador Andrea Victorin, the head of the EU delegation. Surprisingly enough, the event took place behind CLOSED DOORS, where, the opposition members of NA and the journalists, WERE NOT invited. How DEMOCRATIC is that? , Forum of Democracy, my foot. During the event, Convict Nikol, took the podium and said the following,” Today, the democracy is being killed by another democracy”. In reference to the opposition’s peaceful demonstrations. Evidently, Captain Chaos himself, had forgotten his ambitious role, when back in 2018,with his whinny, and high pitched voice, screamed at the Freedom Square in Yerevan, in front of his supporters, he said ” Either I will be the Prime Minister of Armenia or Armenia will NOT have a Prime Minister “. This is not a democracy, this is called a Power-grab, aka coup de-tat. I sure hope the day will come when ,this crook and his hooligans including Makunts, will do time in slammer.

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