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Eight arrests during protest in front of parliament building

| updated on 5/14/20 4:18 PM
Photo: BTA

Eight people, inlcuding persons with criminal records, have been arrested for provocative behavior towards the police during a protest in front of parliament building.

The protest is organized by the nationalist extra-parliamentary Vuzrazhdane party. The party is demanding the resignation of the government and of the MPs over inadequate policy during of the coronavirus pandemic. The protestors say they consider the substitution of the state of emergency for “emergency epidemic situation” to be illegitimate. Some protestors told the BNR they had lodged a complaint against the orders of the health minister to the Supreme Administrative Court 



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