Armenia: Violence
(asked on 1st March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of politically-motivated violence in Armenia.
This question was answered on 9th March 2017
Political protests occur in Armenia but only infrequently result in violence. The most recent incidence of politically-motivated violence occurred in July/August 2016 around the siege of the Erebuni police station in Yerevan by armed gunmen and demonstrations by their supporters.