Principal of Yerevan school who did not allow children to protest resigns

The principal of the Yerevan Monte Melkonyan school No. 11, Ruzanna Azizyan, resigned after the protests of pupils and parents demanding her resignation.

At a meeting of the teaching staff at the school, a representative of the city administration told that the principal had applied for dismissal to the mayor of Yerevan, Taron Margaryan, Interfax reports.

Yesterday, children, their parents, teachers and human rights activists staged a protest action demanding to dismiss the principal, who did not allow students to come to the protests of the candidate for the post of Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, by force leaving them in school.