٠٠:٠٢:٠٢Protesters clashed with police outside the Parliament building in Yerevan on Wednesday, during a mass rally demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Footage shows riot police trying to hold back the crowd, as well as paramedics providing first aid to injured demonstrators.
Bagrat Galstanyan, leader of the 'Tavush for the Homeland' movement and head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, called for four days of continuous rallies to demand the government's resignation and the formation of a new cabinet.
At the time of publication, there was no official information about the detentions.
Ongoing protests calling for Pashinyan to resign began as he conducted border talks with Azerbaijan and made certain territorial concessions. Last month, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to delineate the border in the Tavush region and transfer control of the four villages - Baganis Ayrum, Ashaghy-Askipara, Kheirimli, and Kyzyl-Gajili - to Baku.
Pashinyan himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
The talks began after 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.
Protesters clash with police at mass rally near Parliament building in Yerevan
Protesters clashed with police outside the Parliament building in Yerevan on Wednesday, during a mass rally demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Footage shows riot police trying to hold back the crowd, as well as paramedics providing first aid to injured demonstrators.
Bagrat Galstanyan, leader of the 'Tavush for the Homeland' movement and head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, called for four days of continuous rallies to demand the government's resignation and the formation of a new cabinet.
At the time of publication, there was no official information about the detentions.
Ongoing protests calling for Pashinyan to resign began as he conducted border talks with Azerbaijan and made certain territorial concessions. Last month, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to delineate the border in the Tavush region and transfer control of the four villages - Baganis Ayrum, Ashaghy-Askipara, Kheirimli, and Kyzyl-Gajili - to Baku.
Pashinyan himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
The talks began after 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.
Protesters clashed with police outside the Parliament building in Yerevan on Wednesday, during a mass rally demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Footage shows riot police trying to hold back the crowd, as well as paramedics providing first aid to injured demonstrators.
Bagrat Galstanyan, leader of the 'Tavush for the Homeland' movement and head of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, called for four days of continuous rallies to demand the government's resignation and the formation of a new cabinet.
At the time of publication, there was no official information about the detentions.
Ongoing protests calling for Pashinyan to resign began as he conducted border talks with Azerbaijan and made certain territorial concessions. Last month, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to delineate the border in the Tavush region and transfer control of the four villages - Baganis Ayrum, Ashaghy-Askipara, Kheirimli, and Kyzyl-Gajili - to Baku.
Pashinyan himself said that he would not comply with the protesters' demands to suspend the border process, warning that 'war will break out' if he did not continue.
The talks began after 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.