YEREVAN. – The hearings on Shant Harutyunyan’s case will be held on Saturday in the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan.

The court will consider extending the term of arrest of United National Initiative leader for two months, Harutyunyan’s wife told Armenian News-NEWS.am. She noted that Harutyunyan is holding a hunger strike.

The United National Initiative leader and activist Shant Harutyunyan who heads a nationalist party, and who had announced about starting a revolution, on November 5—and with close to several dozen 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. Subsequently, 20 of them, including Harutyunyan, were arrested, charges were laid against six of them and, consequently, they were incarcerated. As a result of the melee, about a dozen people, including police officers, were injured.