In the evening of June 3 correspondent of “Haykakan Zhamanak” daily Ani Gevorgian was released under obligation not the leave the place. As it has been reported, Ani Gevorgian was detained on May 31 during opposition protest in the center of Yerevan. Criminal proceedings are instituted against the journalist by Part 1 of Article 316, “Violence against a Representative of Power”, of RA Criminal Code (see details in YPC Weekly Newsletter, May 28 – June 3, 2010).
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