Nikol Pashinyan ‘forcibly taken’ by police following a meeting with new PM Serzh SarksyanArmenian police have detained the opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan as protests against the former president Serzh Sarksyan’s appointment as prime minister entered a tenth day. Sarksyan met Pashinyan, the opposition politician leading the protests, in Yerevan on Sunday but left talks a few minutes after their talks began. It’s just an ultimatum, blackmail of the state, of the legitimate authorities,” Sarksyan told Pashinyan. The situation is different to the one you knew 15-20 days ago,” Pashinyan told Sarksyan. Sasun Mikaelyan, an opposition MP, earlier told journalists that Pashinyan had been arrested.

Source: The Guardian April 22, 2018 10:57 UTC