Five Human Rights Defenders Initiative reports on illegal police  actions against citizens detained during protests in Yerevan

ArmInfo. The "Five Human Rights Defenders" initiative reports on illegal actions by the police  against citizens detained during protests in Yerevan.

"We are receiving reports that detained citizens at various police  stations are being forced to reveal passwords to their smartphones in  order to illegally gain access to confidential data. Therefore, we  urge you to put a password on your smartphones; we inform you that  the detainee is not obliged to tell the police either the password or  the phone number. We remind you that our hotline number is  095088787," the initiative said in a statement.

Since April 19, protests have been taking place in the country  against the unilateral concessions of the Armenian authorities to  Azerbaijan. The protests were led by primate of the Tavush diocese of  the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan. The  Armenian authorities have launched a large-scale campaign of  denigration and discredit against him, but so far in vain.