Armenians throng to the capital to demand prime minister’s resignation

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have held a protest in the center of the capital calling for the resignation of the prime minister (Stepan Poghosyan/AP)

Tens of thousands of demonstrators held a protest on Sunday in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, to call for prime minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation after the European nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.

The demonstration was the latest in a weeks-long series of gatherings led by a high-ranking cleric in the Armenian Apostolic Church Bagrat Galstanyan, archbishop of the Tavush diocese in Armenia’s northeast.