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29 March 2004 - 18:49 AMT

OPPOSITION RALLY IN GYUMRI ENDED IN DISORDERS AND ARRESTS

The Sunday rally of the Justice opposition bloc in Gyumri ended in disorders and arrests. As representative of Hanrapetutyun party, MP Smbat Ayvazian told Arminfo agency, a group of women with anti-opposition placards tried to wreck the rally. The opposition activists took the placards away and forced them out of the area. Some young people trying to defend the women started a fight. Ayvazian says that the police arrested exclusively oppositionists. In his words, 4 representatives of the Hanrapetutyun party are in custody at present.