National Renaissance Party MP Hayk Khanoumyan, who was attacked and beaten earlier today in Stepanakert, issued a statement saying that he knows seven of his attackers.

Khanoumyan says he will not be intimidated to leave Artsakh and that his primary aim is that the country become a place where all are protected under the law.

The MP says that he was forced to sign a document saying that yesterday’s rally in the NKR capital was ill conceived and wrong.

“I know seven of my attackers and my friends are clarifying their data. Those details will be conveyed to other of my friends,” Khanoumyan writes in his statement.