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March kicks off from Yerevanâ€™s Khorenatsi street to police and NSS buildings - UPDATED

March kicks off from Yerevanâ€™s Khorenatsi street to police and NSS buildings - <span style="color: red;">UPDATED

26 July 2016 21:12 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The demonstrators gathered in Yerevan’s Khorenatsi street have launched a march along Yerevan streets, APA reports quoting news.am.

According to the organizers, the march will pass by the police and National Security Service (NSS) buildings.

The route has been announced by the political analyst Andrias Ghukasyan. In his words, the demonstrators will pass along Nar-Dos and Charents streets, then move to the Republic Square via Nalbandyan street and return to Khorenatsi street.

Although the police had issued a statement requiring the demonstrators to change the place of their rally, quite a lot of people take part in it and the ensuing march.

*** 22:30

Baku-APA. Although the police have warned the demonstrators in Yerevan’s Khorenatsi street to move the rally to another place, the street is again crowded today, APA reports quoting news.am.

The people are coming to Khorenatsi street to take part in the rally. At the same time, large number of police forces have been brought to the site.

The traffic in Khorenatsi street is blocked.

Earlier, the police issued a statement, requiring the demonstrators to change the place of the rally from Khorentasi street to some other place. In order to prevent a threat to lives and health of the participants of the meeting, as well as public safety, nothing else can be done other than to move the meeting to another place. Otherwise, the police will have to use other means, in accordance with the law, to stop the rally”, the statement reads.

The demonstrators have announced that they are not going to obey the requirements of the police and are going to hold today’s rally again in Khorenatsi street.