Fifteen people detained after brawl in Nagorno-Karabakh

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has opened a criminal case on hooliganism after the incident with law enforcers in Stepanakert, the NKR's capital. Participants in the protest rally agreed to disperse and go home, but stated that their resignation demands remain in force.

On Saturday, about 500 people gathered in Stepanakert for a rally against the beating of two local residents by special force fighters. Social networks reported that on June 1 special fighters interfered into a brawl of two men and beat them up. The rally participants demanded to fire the heads of all NKR's power structures.

The protesters decided to get together again on June 3, if their resignation demands are not met.

"We demand justice; we need law," said David Simonyan, one of the protesters.

Vagram Ovsepyan, another participant of the action, said that all the guilty ones must certainly be punished.

A police source told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that "15 people were detained in the brawl". According to the NKR's GPO, in the evening on June 1, a quarrel, then a brawl broke out right in the street of David Arutyunyan and Albert Avetisyan, on the one hand, and five men on the other. Two of these five are employees of the National Security Service (NSS).