At the moment about 100 activists, including Political Prisoners Protection Committee of Armenian National Congress (ANC) are protesting near the Opera house, where the congress of International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) will take place.

A group of young people and human rights activists are wearing prison garbs.

FIDH and ANC are hopeful that conference attendees will make the relevant statement on political prisoners in Armenia, ANC Foreign Relations committee head Vladimir Karapetyan told NEWS.am.

The protest aims at showing foreign delegations the actual state of human rights in the country.

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