Live: Police did not answer activists (video)
22.00 Activist Ani Navasardyan, the cousin of Smbat Brseghyan, one of the anti-government gunmen occupying police patrol service building in Yerevan in Yerevan, said they had presented a four-point demand to the police and asked them to give an answer within a shortest period of time, but they have received no reply by the police until this moment. 21.56 Nikol Pashinyan said tensions increased on Yerevan’s Sari Tagh street leading to blocked Erebuni district. “People are being taken to police stations, gas supply was terminated, the road is blocked,” he said. Pashinyan had asked the Chairman of the Investigative Committee to refrain from further provocation. Then he headed to Sari Tagh becauase, as he said, he was receiving many calls from residents. Pashinyan not allowed to take food to seized police building personally 21.49 Armenian lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan has just informed the demonstrators on Khorenatsi street that it is very difficult to pass food to the members of the Sasna Dzrer group. The group agreed to take food personally from Pashinyan who was supposed to enter a random shop and buy food from there. Anyway, Pashinyan stopped on the way after encountering a heavy police cordon. The lawmaker has discussed the issue with Chief of Yerevan Police Ashot Karapetyan who said ‘the issue is under consideration.’ Flow of citizens to Khorenatsi street does not stop 21.29 More people and police officers are coming to Khorenatsi street where a police station remains occupied by anti-government gunmen affiliated with a radical opposition group for a fourth day. During the public debate held in the street earlier on Wednesday activists decided to buy food and send to the people inside the police compound. It is still unknown who will take the food to the gunmen and hostages. Nikol Pashinyan refused to assume the mission out of security reasons, saying he could only pass them the food bought by him. People on Khorenatsi street pay tribute to slain police officer 21.12 People gathered on Khorenatsi street observed a moment of silence for Colonel Artur Vanoyan, who was killed on July 17 during the seizure of a police station in Yerevan by anti-government gunmen. Hostage takers and hostages fired in the air in memory of Colonel Artur Vanoyan 20.51 Armenian lawmaker Nikol Pashinyan is again on Khorenatsi street. He said today members of the Sasna Dzrer group and their hostages fired in the air in memory of Colonel Artur Vanoyan, who was buried in the afternoon. Pashinyan said that the group members occupying the Erebuni police building for the fourth day, gave guns to Deputy Chief of Yerevan Police, Valery Osipyan, and the other two police officers who also fired in the air as a sign of respect. Activists present they key demands 20.27 Ani Navasardyan, a cousin of one of the armed individuals who seized a Yerevan police patrol building early Sunday morning, said at 1 p.m. a public debate was held on Yerevan’s Khorenatis street. The activists, she said, singled out the main steps to be taken by people in the given situation in the Armenian capital. The first point concerns a declaration which should include all demands of the Sasna Dzrer armed group. Besides, people should also add a point to exclude further bloodshed. Best lawyers and politicians that enjoy the trust of public should participate in the drafting of the declaration. Second, the activists demand to restore the group’s access to information sources so that they can be informed about the process of declaration writing and continue negotiations between the group and the opposite side. Third, the activists demand to stop calling the group members ‘terrorists’ on the state level. Finally, the activists demand that food be taken to the barricaded freed fighters by one of their relatives who will come out of the building unharmed. 19.41 The situation near the Erebuni police station seized by the Sasna Dzrer armed group since Sunday is calm at this moment. Some of the police officers have formed a shield wall, others are sitting in the shadows of trees. You can follow the events live on A1+
