(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) (Yerevan) - Armenian authorities have arbitrarily detained dozens of people linked to the ongoing, largely peaceful, protests and beaten many of them, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities also have pressed unjustified criminal charges against numerous protest leaders and some participants and denied them basic rights of detainees. 'The Armenian authorities' response to Yerevan's largely peaceful protests has been excessive and cruel,' said Jane Buchanan, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. 'The tense atmosphere at some protests is no justification for detaining people arbitrarily, beating them, and bringing...
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