YEREVAN (AFP) – Nearly 6,000 demonstrators rallied in the Armenian capital on Tuesday after riot police used water cannon to break up an earlier protest against electricity price hikes.Waving national flags and chanting Shame and No to robbery angry protesters flooded Yerevans central Freedom Square Tuesday evening, an AFP journalist reported from the scene.They also demanded the release of nearly 240 people that were detained at dawn when police dispersed a protest near the presidential palace.We will not surrender, young protester Artak Harutyunyan told AFP.We will continue our peaceful struggle until the government fulfils our demands.Public anger has mounted over …read more
Source: Dunya TV
