Activist Gagik Yeghiazaryan released
Gagik Yeghiazaryan, a member of the New Armenian opposition movement, has been released after spending three hours in a police station in Yerevan. Yeghiazaryan was taken to the police station on Friday morning. Together with scores of supporters of the opposition movement, Yeghiazaryan was staging a protest outside the Court of Appeal after the court dismissed a request to grant pretrial release to Gevorg Safaryan, a key opposition figure who was arrested on New Year's Eve and has been held in custody even since for allegedly assaulting and injuring a law enforcement officer. As soon as the New Armenia supporters were informed about the court ruling they began throwing eggs at the court building in protest of the decision. Gagik Yeghiazaryan was detained as result of police intervention. Talking to A1+, Gagik Yeghiazaryan said he refused to sign documents at the police station. Nor did he allow them to take his fingerprints. The activist asked whether he was breaking any law by throwing eggs but no one replied to his question.
