The friends and colleagues of Ruben Vardanyan held a march in Yerevan today, April 24, the day of the Armenian Genocide anniversary, expressing support for philanthropist Vardanyan—who had served also as State Minister of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)—who is illegally held in an Azerbaijani capital Baku prison and has declared a hunger strike, and for all other Armenian captives in Azerbaijan The participants started this march from the beginning of the Great Bridge of Hrazdan—which is more commonly known as Kievian Bridge—and marched towards the Armenian Genocide Memorial.