More than 100 participants have been detained in Yerevan for disobeying police orders as protests calling for the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan continue following word of a land deal last month with arch foe Azerbaijan.

The Interior Ministry confirmed the latest detentions as police tried to clear streets in the capital clogged with demonstrators.

Yerevan and Baku preliminarily agreed on a protocol signed on April 19 in which Armenia cedes control of four villages controlled by Yerevan since the 1990s. Pashinyan has said unilateral concessions are necessary to prevent Azerbaijani military aggression against Armenia.