YEREVAN. - On Thursday the First Instance Court of Center and Armenian Nork Marash postponed the trial of four Armenian National Congress (ANC) activists until December 22.

The reason of the postponing was that Tigran Arakelyan changed his lawyer.

The trial will be continued on December 22.

Tigran Arakelyan was arrested with 6 other ANC activists for a fight with police officers. Later 6 activists were dismissed provided they do not leave the country. Tigran Arakelyan is the only one who is in jail.

Only four of them - Tigran Arakelyan, Sargis Gevorgyan, Artak Karapetyan and Davit Kiramijyan - are being heard on a criminal case.

The arrest of the activist gave reason for ANC to stop negotiations with authorities.