Police at around 5:30 to 6:00 am on June 23 with the help of special equipment and the use of force dispersed demonstrators who had staged a sit-in on Baghramyan Avenue since 8:00 pm on June 22.<\/p>\n
The approximately 500 demonstrators and their more than 1,000 supporters were demanding the annulment of the decision to raise the electricity rate in Armenia by 6.93 AMD (about $0.01 USD). The new rate (in effect beginning August 1) will be 48.78 AMD\/kWh ($0.10) instead of the previous 41.85 AMD\/kWh ($0.09).<\/p>\n
During police operations, journalists were injured while carrying out their professional duties. Police beat journalists, broke their professional equipment, and seized both camera equipment and smartphone memory cards.<\/p>\n
See the live blog below for the reaction on social media to the violence against journalists in downtown Yerevan.<\/p>\n
Anna Barseghyan<\/strong> Police at around 5:30 to 6:00 am on June 23 with the help of special equipment and the use of force dispersed demonstrators who had staged a sit-in on Baghramyan Avenue since 8:00 pm on June 22.<\/p>\n The approximately 500 demonstrators and their more than 1,000 supporters were demanding the annulment of the decision to raise the electricity rate in Armenia by 6.93 AMD (about $0.01 USD). The new rate (in effect beginning August 1) will be 48.78 AMD\/kWh ($0.10) instead of the previous 41.85 AMD\/kWh ($0.09).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-anna-barseghyan","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGegham Vardanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"