YEREVAN. – Avetis Avetisyan, who is one of the twenty people that are arrested as a result of Tuesday’s clash in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan, declared hunger strike on Thursday. 

The Police news service confirmed this information to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Avetisyan had submitted a petition to the investigative body and announced that he is starting a hunger strike.  

To note, activist Shan Harutyunyan, who had announced about starting a revolution, on Tuesday—and with close to one-hundred supporters wearing Guy Fawkes “Anonymous masks”—started a march toward the Presidential Palace, but the police stopped the march. As a result, there was a scuffle, and the police detained 37 activists, including Harutyunyan and his son. As a result of the melee, sixteen people, including eight police officers, were injured. In addition, the Armenian News-NEWS.am reported had sustained bodily injuries.