YEREVAN. – Fifty-nine of the 60 people who went to hospital as a result of the clashes between the police and the members of the opposition Resistance Movement on June 3 at the Proshyan-Demirchyan intersection in Yerevan have been discharged. The Ministry of Health of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am about this.

Yerevan State Medical University chief of staff Shushan Danielyan told us that the operation of the citizen still continuing the treatment in the hospital was successful.

As a result of the aforesaid clash, this person had sustained a head injury.

On June 3, the opposition "Armenia" and "With Honor" Factions initiated a special National Assembly (NA) session, the agenda of which was the NA draft statement on Armenian-Azerbaijani and Armenian-Turkish relations. The MPs of the majority “Civil Contract” faction, however, did not attend the session, thus thwarting it.

Opposition lawmakers then returned to France Square—in downtown Yerevan—from where they marched to the main government building and cordoned off all its entrances.

About three hours later, the members of the aforesaid movement reopened all the entrances to the main government building, and marched to the government mansion where, according to Resistance Movement coordinator Ishkhan Saghatelyan—the NA deputy speaker from the opposition "Armenia" Faction and a representative of the Supreme Body of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun Party of Armenia—PM Nikol Pashinyan was.

When the protesters wanted to march back to the NA building, however, the police refused to open the road, after which a clash broke out between the police and the protesters. The police used brute force and apprehended many demonstrators—even by beating them. Also, they used special means—in particular, smoke, light, and sound grenades. Many people, including the police, fell ill. Dozens of citizens and police officers were taken to hospital.