By YEREVAN. May 16 (Interfax) – More than 90 participants in a Yerevan motor rally demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan were detained on Monday morning.
"Ninety-one people were taken to police stations," the police press service told Interfax.
All detainees are automobilists.
The police have blocked every route for the opposition motor rally; cars are stopped, and drivers are detained, an Interfax correspondent reported from the ground. The police have not commented on their actions.
The motor rally from four dormitory neighborhoods of Yerevan to the city center began on Monday morning. The cars were practically crawling, thus creating multi-kilometer traffic jams.
Anti-governmental protests, marches and rallies, organized by the parliamentary opposition and various opposition groups have been held in Yerevan daily since April 17. The new outbreak of protests began in Armenia after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told the parliament on April 14 about the demand "to lower the bar a little regarding the status of Nagorno-Karabakh" and the need to sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan.
