Armenia detains protestors of land concessions to Azerbaijan, igniting unrest in Yerevan. Protests seek to reverse peace deal decisions.
Armenia briefly detained scores of demonstrators in Yerevan protesting the government's plans to cede territory to Azerbaijan, sparking weeks of unrest.
The ex-Soviet Caucasus country has agreed to hand over territory it has controlled since the 1990s and has started border delimitation efforts, in a bid to secure an elusive peace deal with Baku and avoid another bloody conflict. The 52-year-old joint Armenian and Canadian citizen is a church leader of the Tavush region, which Armenian forces captured in the 1990s and where Pashinyan had agreed to cede control of four villages.The interior ministry said that a total of 156 people had been detained on Monday but that protesters had failed to close off any streets in Yerevan and that all those detained were later released.
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