For the second time this week, activists closed a major street in Yerevan to protest a possible electricity rate hike.

Some fifty protestors sat down in the middle of Saryan Street near the offices of the Public Services Regulatory Commission that is now reviewing whether such a hike is justified.

The activists demanded to be allowed to participate in the discussions taking placed inside the Commission and voice their opposition to any rate increase.

Yerevan Deputy Police Chief Valery Osipyan at first told the crowd that ten activists would be allowed inside. He quickly did a U-turn and said that there was no room. It was upon hearing this that the activists sat down in the middle of the street.

Cops then moved in to remove them.

MPs from the Heritage, Armenian National Congress, Prosperous Armenia and Rule of Law parties also showed up in support of the protestors.