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YEREVAN. – The fourth night of the sit-in launched by the “Stand up, Armenia” citizens’ movement at Republic Square in capital city Yerevan, and against an electricity price hike in the country, passed peacefully and without incidents.

Initiative member Vahagn Levonyan on Thursday told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“The night passed ideally,” he said. “No unusual incident was recorded between us and the police. There was no large number of policemen watching over us.”

Levonyan added that “Stand up, Armenia” Council member—and member of the opposition “Barev [Hello], Yerevan” faction at Yerevan Council—, activist Davit Sanasaryan, who had fallen ill Wednesday evening at Republic Square and was taken to hospital on an ambulance, has recovered, and he will join them on Thursday.      

The activists stayed overnight at the square, and resumed their civil disobedience actions on Thursday morning.

The abovementioned citizens’ movement had announced that it was starting a 72-hour sit-in on Monday at Republic Square. The police, however, do not permit them to approach the middle of the square.

The “Stand up, Armenia” had stated that if the Public Services Regulatory Commission of Armenia does not revoke the decision to raise the electricity tariff in the country, they will start protests, conduct awareness visits to the provinces, and close off streets, as of Monday, July 27.

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