Armenian parliament besieged by protesters demanding PM’s resignation

A police officer tries to detain demonstrators during a rally demanding the resignation of Armenia’s PM (AP/Hrant Khachatryan)

Thousands of protesters have converged on Armenia’s parliament building to push for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his handing of fighting with Azerbaijan.

They are angry about a peace deal that ended six weeks of fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh but saw Azerbaijan take over wide areas that have been controlled by Armenian forces for more than a quarter of a century.