Over 150 detained during protests in Armenia

Armenian police detained a total of 151 people blocking streets in Yerevan early on Monday as part of peaceful acts of civil disobedience against the Armenian government’s decision to cede border villages to Azerbaijan.

The Interior Ministry said that those detained had failed to comply with police orders.

Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan led protesters to Yerevan last week after walking for five days from the border village of Kirants in Tavush Province.

Addressing a big rally in Yerevan’s central Republic Square on Sunday, Galstanyan insisted on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's resignation. He urged supporters to continue acts of civil disobedience in and outside Yerevan on Monday.