Armenia terminates some criminal cases into 2020 riots

The National Security Service of Armenia, three years after the November 2020 events, has terminated criminal cases against more than 10 people accused of participating in mass riots in Yerevan.

Caliber.Az reports, citing the Armenian media, that the investigative authorities closed the cases, unable to find sufficient evidence to send the materials to the court.

Some participants in those events had already been convicted in the case of the riots, but the investigation continued against many others. In all likelihood, the prosecution of the others will also be stopped.

In November 2020, after the 44-day Patriotic War, Armenia signed an act of surrender, which caused mass protests, accompanied by riots on the central streets of Yerevan. Protesters broke into the parliament building and beat up the current Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, who was the speaker at the time.