YEREVAN. – The “Stand up, Armenia” citizens’ movement, which is staging a sit-in for the fifth day at Republic Square in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan and against an electricity price hike in the country, will resort to new forms of civil disobedience on Friday evening.

Member of the movement’s initiative group, Vahagn Levonyan, told about the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am. The activist, however, did not specify what means of disobedience they will resort to.

Levonyan, who had spent the night at the square with the other participants—a total of twenty people—in this sit-in, noted that the night had passed peacefully, and two of them had managed to once again sit in the middle of the square, before the police removed them from the area.

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

The “Stand up, Armenia” initiative 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. Even though these 72 hours have passed, the activists are still at the square until they reach their objective and stage a sit-in in the middle of Republic Square.