Police officers use force against a person not wearing protection mask: Armenia's PM refers to the incident (video)

Head of an NGO formed to participate in the four-day war in April 2016 Manuel Manukyan posted on Facebook today a video on how police officers “humiliate a citizen for not wearing mask.

“Look how he puts his leg on his neck. Each of us may appear in his place. What was done to this person may be done to each of us,” he wrote, urging to unite and demand that the police officers be subjected to responsibility.

Deputy head of public relations department of the Armenian Polcie Edgar Janoyan told Aysor.am that the citizen was apprehended for not implementing the lawful demand of the police.

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan referred in his Facebook post to the incident, stressing that police is a power structure and may and should apply force against those demonstrating open indifference toward the set rules.

“This is my demand from the police, this is also public’s demand from the police,” he stressed.