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Blood was flowing down my forehead into my eyes -Movses Shahverdyan

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Movses Shahverdyan, Chairman of the Labour Socialist Party of Armenia, who was injured during the Wednesday clashes between the riot police and demonstrators in Khorenatsi Street, has been discharged from hospital. Today he visited doctor to have his bandage changed and then went to a forensic expert. Mr. Shahverdyan told A1+ that he had been kept in an intensive care unit for one day. He spent another three days in hospital. “I do not want anyone to see my face. It is torn in three places,” he said. Movses Shahverdyan says he was standing alone in the street far away from the scene of clashes when 7-8 policemen attacked him and began to beat him with batons “The blood running from my forehead was filling into my eyes,” he said. While in hospital, an investigator visited Movses Shahverdyan to tell him that he would bear witness in the criminal case initiated in connection with mass disorders. Shahverdyan has not been recognized an injured party yet.