Armenian Police Disperse Crowd Protesting Rise In Power Prices

Karapet Sahakian, a photojournalist with Panorama.am, is detained by police in Yerevan.

RFE/RL Armenian Service journalist Sisak Gabrielyan was beaten by the police while reporting from downtown Yerevan.

Armenian police used force and water cannons to clear a demonstration in central Yerevan after an overnight standoff with activists protesting against rising electricity prices. In the early hours June 23, special police forces moved to disperse a crowd of hundreds of protesters who spent more than nine hours seated in the street not far from the presidential compound.