“On February 25th at 9:30 P.M. members of the police took Suren Surenyants into custody for violating the law regarding the organization and holding of public events. Mr. Surenyants, was taken into custody at Freedom Square where he had, on the same day, organized a public event in convention of ROA law pertaining to ‘Meetings, assemblies, marches and demonstrations’. Based on his direct calls to the people the said individual was responsible for the event.

According to ROA Criminal Code 225 Brim 1, First Section, Suren Surenyants was arrested and criminally charged.”


On February 26th, Arman Musinyan, Press Secretary of Levon Ter-Petrosyan's Campaign Headquarters revealed news of other similar arrests. In particular he noted the arrests today of Garnik Margaryan, Samvel Harutyunyan and Khachik Simonyan, who heads Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s campaign headquarters in Yeghvard. According to Musinyan, the police had no written warrants when they showed up at their regional headquarters.

The above individuals are political figures. Suren Surenyants is a member of the Political Council of the “Republic Party” and Garnik Margaryan is President of the “Fatherland and Honor Party”.

P.S. - Hetq has learnt that later in the day Garnik Margaryan and Samvel Harutyunyan were released