Thirty Artsakh War vets have called on other freedom fighters to participate in a public rally scheduled for April 17 at Yerevan’s Liberty Square in support Jirayr Sefilyan and four other members of the Founding Parliament who were arrested on April 7.

In a public statement the thirty signatories, operating under the name “Shoushi Special Unit Freedom Fighters Union", call on their comrades “for whom the future of the homeland and nation is dear, who are not indifferent to the plight of our peacetime heroes, for whom the honor and repute of Armenian fedayees is dear” to participate in the rally.

The five arrested on April 7 are Jirayr Sefilyan (Commander of the Shoushi Special Unit), freedom fighter Pavlik Manukyan, Garegin Choukaszyan (Founding Parliament president), Varuzhan Avetisyan (Founding Parliament VP), and Gevorg Safaryan (Founding Parliament board member).