Armenian police disperse protest

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

YEREVAN (AFP) — Armenian police on Saturday dispersed opposition protestors from the capital Yerevan's Freedom Square, sweeping away a tent camp after 11 days of non-stop demonstrations against alleged vote rigging.

Hundreds of riot police cleared the square by Yerevan's opera house of a hard core of some 1,500 protesters, who had been camping there ever since the February 19 presidential election in which Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian defeated opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian.

Police refused to comment on the fate of the protesters and chased media away from the square as army trucks arrived to take away the makeshift tent camp.

According to Ter-Petrosian's headquarters, the opposition leader narrowly evaded arrest when police and anti-riot units...