Protesters urge students to join them (video)
Nikol Pashinyan is at YSU with the protesters. Demonstrators are shouting "Join us! Join us!", "Strike", "Free, Independent Student" to encourage students to join them. Nikol Pashinyan explains why he is in YSU. "YSU should be the symbol of freedom of citizens and students of Armenia. During this time, we are receiving many calls from different educational institutions that the doors have been closed and the students cannot get out. This is a great disgrace when the doors of an educational institution are closed to adults. This is one of the most important symbols of the fake state created by Serzh Sargsyan and the RPA, and I urge the rectors of all HEIs, the Ministry of Education and Science, to put an end to that practice." The YSU doors are open to us and we welcome it. That day, the doors at the Pedagogical University were not closed and we welcome that decision because this is a civilized movement that is not guided by violence, but with ideas and interests of the Armenian people. "
