19:26, 2 September 2013

In Armenia, student detained at protest action

About 200 people took part in a protest against the increase of tuition fees at universities. One of the organizers – the student Arutyun Mkrtchyan – was taken to a police station.

The action began with a gathering of some 25 students at the stairs in front of the main entrance to the Yerevan State University (YSU); then they decided to march to the building of the government.

At the building, the students used a loudspeaker to demand a government's answer to their demand to cancel the illegal, in their opinion, increase of tuition fees; they promised to organize the next protest action at the presidential palace on September 5.

"Our next protest will take place on September 5 already in front of the president's residence," Mger Kazaryan, a member of the "Nikol Agbalyan" Students' Association, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to his story, the students are determined to demand from the president himself to address their problem.

Author: Lilit Ovanisyan, Inessa Sargsyan

Source: CK correspondents