Law enforcement detained a man for allegedly attacking people with a medical 'lancet' during protests against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan on Thursday.
Footage shows police detaining the demonstrator before they put him in a vehicle and took him to the police station.
The attacker stated during the search that he had used the small medical knife to injure seven people.
"Three of them wanted to [hurt me] and I wanted to hurt them. Seven people approached me and kissed [me] so I hurt them. I hurt seven of them," the man said.
The opposition 'Tavush for the Homeland' movement said that nine people had been detained during Thursday's rally, which took place on Republic Square during a government meeting. Local law enforcement claimed protesters became violent and called on the participants 'not to violate the law and obey the lawful demands of the police'.
Protests calling for Pashinyan to resign came as he conducted border talks with Azerbaijan and made certain territorial concessions. Last month, four villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashaghi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Ghizilhajili - were transferred to Baku.
The PM himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border delimitation process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
Head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, from the area of the border villages, has led the protests, and said that opposition factions would initiate impeachment proceedings. The 'Tavush for the Homeland Movement' has also nominated Galstanya himself as PM.
The border talks began at the conclusion of the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September 2023.
It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'. Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.
Police detain man 'assaulting people with medical lancet' during protests in Yerevan
Law enforcement detained a man for allegedly attacking people with a medical 'lancet' during protests against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan on Thursday.
Footage shows police detaining the demonstrator before they put him in a vehicle and took him to the police station.
The attacker stated during the search that he had used the small medical knife to injure seven people.
"Three of them wanted to [hurt me] and I wanted to hurt them. Seven people approached me and kissed [me] so I hurt them. I hurt seven of them," the man said.
The opposition 'Tavush for the Homeland' movement said that nine people had been detained during Thursday's rally, which took place on Republic Square during a government meeting. Local law enforcement claimed protesters became violent and called on the participants 'not to violate the law and obey the lawful demands of the police'.
Protests calling for Pashinyan to resign came as he conducted border talks with Azerbaijan and made certain territorial concessions. Last month, four villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashaghi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Ghizilhajili - were transferred to Baku.
The PM himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border delimitation process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
Head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, from the area of the border villages, has led the protests, and said that opposition factions would initiate impeachment proceedings. The 'Tavush for the Homeland Movement' has also nominated Galstanya himself as PM.
The border talks began at the conclusion of the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September 2023.
It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'. Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.
Law enforcement detained a man for allegedly attacking people with a medical 'lancet' during protests against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan on Thursday.
Footage shows police detaining the demonstrator before they put him in a vehicle and took him to the police station.
The attacker stated during the search that he had used the small medical knife to injure seven people.
"Three of them wanted to [hurt me] and I wanted to hurt them. Seven people approached me and kissed [me] so I hurt them. I hurt seven of them," the man said.
The opposition 'Tavush for the Homeland' movement said that nine people had been detained during Thursday's rally, which took place on Republic Square during a government meeting. Local law enforcement claimed protesters became violent and called on the participants 'not to violate the law and obey the lawful demands of the police'.
Protests calling for Pashinyan to resign came as he conducted border talks with Azerbaijan and made certain territorial concessions. Last month, four villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashaghi Askipara, Kheyrimli and Ghizilhajili - were transferred to Baku.
The PM himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border delimitation process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
Head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, from the area of the border villages, has led the protests, and said that opposition factions would initiate impeachment proceedings. The 'Tavush for the Homeland Movement' has also nominated Galstanya himself as PM.
The border talks began at the conclusion of the long-running conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook control of the breakaway territory, a separatist area governed by ethnic Armenians, in September 2023.
It followed what Baku called a 'counter-terrorist operation' in the region, which Yerevan described as a 'large-scale aggression'. Subsequently, Nagorno-Karabakh's government said the self-declared republic would cease to exist by January 2024, while many ethnic Armenians left the area.