Protest against electricity price hikes turns violent in Armenia

‘Armenian police have attacked a group of demonstrators protesting in the capital, Yerevan, to show their dissatisfaction with a recent government decision to raise public electricity prices.

The Tuesday protest rally turned violent after riot police used water cannon to disperse several hundred demonstrators in Yerevan. Security forces also beat some protesters with rubber batons.

A number of demonstrators were wounded in the skirmishes while police forces took dozens of others into custody.

Plainclothes police also beat journalists, destroying or confiscating their equipment.’

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