12,000 protest against Armenian government in Yerevan

About 12,000 opposition activists demonstrated against Armenia's government in the country's capital.
Friday's protest was called by the opposition Armenian National Congress group, which is led by Levon Ter-Petrosian, who was the country's first president after independence from the Soviet Union.
The protesters were initially barred from assembling in the capital's central Freedom Square, but authorities then allowed them to gather there.
Ter-Petrosian told the crowd on the square that the opposition's main demands include the freeing of all political prisoners and full prosecution of all responsible for the killing of 10 people in violence that broke out amid protests after the 2008 presidential election, in which Ter-Petroisan was a losing contender.