YEREVAN. - A group of young participants of the “New Armenia” Public Salvation Front gathered in front of Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office today demanding to release Gevorg Safaryan, the arrested member of radical opposition group “Founding Parliament.” (photos)

The protestors are holding banners reading “Free political prisoners” and “Indifference brings new crimes,” Armenian News – NEWS.am correspondent reports.  

They are demanding that an authorized person from the Prosecutor General’s Office come and take their letter, which contains the demand to punish the Commander of 4th special police battalion, Captain Gegham Khachatryan, who is the aggrieved person in Safaryan’s case. Nobody from the Prosecutor General’s Office has yet approached the protestors.

Charges were brought against Gevorg Safaryan under Article 316 (1) of the Armenian Criminal Code ( violence against a representative of authorities).  According to the information of the law enforcement authorities, Safaryan used violence against the Commander of 4th special police battalion, Captain Gegham Khachatryan.  

Clashes took place between the “New Armenia” activists and policemen in Yerevan’s Liberty Seuare on New Year Eve. Consequently, the police detained several activists, including Gevorg Safaryan.