Armenian President on the background of protests leaves Yerevan

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will leave for Belgium on the evening of June with a working visit to take part in the summit of the European People’s Party (EPP), which will be held in Brussels on June 13.

According to the press service of the President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan will deliver a speech at the summit. The press service does not specify, his presentation of the latest events in Yerevan will concern.

Despite force suppression On Tuesday, 23 of June, by the Yerevan police of protest actions against the increase in electricity prices in Armenia, protests in the center of the capital 24 of June continued.

Deputy police chief of Yerevan Valery Osipyan called the rally "illegal" and said that all the protesters who were detained during the dispersal of the previous rally were released.

23 June, at dawn, the police broke up with a help of water cannons rally, which began on Monday at the initiative of the movement "No robbery." The demonstrators protested against the increase in electricity tariffs in Armenia by 16% from August 1.

According to human rights activists, the entire Yerevan police detained 237 demonstrators, another 12 people were detained in the city of Gyumri. The international human rights organization Amnesty International also notes that statements about the targeted police prosecution of journalists lead to alarming conclusions about freedom of speech and also need to be investigated.