Police In Armenia Use Stun Grenades On Anti-Government Protesters

Police in Armenia used stun grenades against demonstrators outside the parliament in Yerevan. The protesters, led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian, rallied in the Armenian capital on June 12 to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian. An Interior Ministry spokesman told RFE/RL that 70 people had been detained as of 8 p.m. local time and that both protesters and police were injured in scuffles in central Yerevan.