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YEREVAN. – The night passed very peacefully at Liberty Square in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, about sixty to seventy people spent the night there, and same number of police officers patrolled the area.

Member of the opposition “Barev [Hello], Yerevan” faction at Yerevan Council, activist Davit Sanasaryan—who is on a hunger strike since Monday—, on Tuesday told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“They were holding discussions until the morning, and some of them were sleeping,” added Sanasaryan. “In the morning, some of the demonstrators [who demand the revoking of the recent decision to raise the price of electricity in the country] went.”

At present, there are about a dozen protesters at the square, and half of them are asleep.

Other people are also joining these demonstrators.

Around a dozen police officers are patrolling the area.

Yerevan police on Monday dispersed the demonstrators that had closed down Baghramyan Avenue—which leads to the Office of the President—for the past two weeks. Subsequently, the protesters assembled at Liberty Square, where their demonstration had initially started. They also wanted to hold a march, but the police did not allow it.

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