A Yerevan court today issued a two-month pre-detention order for Archbishop Mikayel Ajapahyan on charges of making public calls for seizing power and overthrowing constitutional order in Armenia.

Ajapahyan is the Shirak Diocesan Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Earlier this week, Armenia’s National Security Service took Archbishop Bagrat Galstyan into custody in Yerevan.

He was subsequently placed in pre-trial detention for two months on charges of terrorism, fomenting public disorder and planning to seize power.

Galstyan led a protest movement in 2024 opposing the Armenian government’s plan to handover border regions to Azerbaijan.