YEREVAN. – The sit-in is still in progress across the Armenian capital city Yerevan Municipality building.

On Wednesday, the activists distributed leaflets containing information on Municipality Transport Department Chief Henrik Navasardyan and Yerevan Trans Company Director Misak Hambardzumyan.  

As per the activists, Navasardyan and Hambardzumyan not only hold office, but they own public transport routes, and they have cursed at and offended Yerevan residents during the recent demonstrations.

The police officers, who were standing in front of the city hall building, attempted to obstruct the distribution of the leaflets.           

Also on Wednesday, the activists are gearing up for a targeted “operation” against the No. 18 route which, according to rumors, belongs to the transport department chief.   

To note, the activists—who are on the sixth day of their sit-in—have several demands, which include the dismissals of Municipality Transport Department Chief Henrik Navasardyan and Yerevan Trans Company Director Misak Hambardzumyan.     

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Yerevan Municipality recent decision to increase the public transport fares in the city had brought about outbursts, several groups were formed in the social networks, and the initiatives were staging protests and distributing pamphlets against this decision. In addition, the Free Car initiative was launched, along the lines of which Armenia’s numerous well-known personalities, MPs, and ordinary residents were providing—with their own vehicles—free transportation to the people.

And on July 25, Mayor Taron Margaryan suspended the decision on the fare hike; but the wave of the aforesaid movement is still alive. The activists demand that the persons, who made the decision on raising the transport fares, be brought to account, and those officials, who used violence against and cursed at the activists, be punished.