Founding Parliament member Armen Mikayelyan was arrested and charged with illegal arms possession last night while he and his family were returning home from the site of the seized police building in Yerevan, this according to a statement released by the Founding Parliament organization.

The statement says that Mikayelyan telephoned his wife this morning and told her that police planted a gun in his pocket.

The Founding Parliament, an opposition political movement in Armenia, has close ties to the Sasna Dzrer armed group that seized a police building in the Armenian capital on July 17.