Armenian Police Violently Stop Protests of Rigged Election

From Reuters:

"Several thousand opposition supporters had been protesting daily in Yerevan's Freedom Square since Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan was elected to replace his ally Robert Kocharyan as president in a February 19 vote.

Riot police moved into the square early on Saturday after authorities warned they were losing patience with the protests led by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Armenia's first president after independence from the Soviet Union who ran against Sarksyan.

"We were asleep," said one of the protesters who had been keeping overnight vigil on the square. "They came and they started to beat us up. They had truncheons," said the man, who showed Reuters his broken finger. He declined to give his name."

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