Colonel Edik Maloyan arrested for two months

ArmInfo.  Colonel Edik Maloyan, a combat veteran in the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict zone and a cavalryman awarded the 1st degree "Combat Cross," has been arrested  for two months. This was reported to Armenian media by the  Investigative Committee of Armenia.  Roman Javadyan, a defendant in  Colonel Edik Maloyan's case, was also arrested for two months.

On July 2, the Investigative Committee reported the arrest of two  Armenian Armed Forces officers for allegedly disclosing information  containing state secrets. It was noted that a petition had been filed  with the court for their pretrial detention.

The arrest was preceded by searches of Maloyan's home. Narek  Karapetyan, a member of the political council of the "Strong Armenia"  bloc, wrote that the colonel was arrested for wanting to live in a  "Strong Armenia." He recalled that Maloyan was the soldier who  reclaimed the positions of Abajyan and Urfanyan (Artsakh heroes who  died during the four-day April War of 2016 - ed.). Furthermore, it  was he who, after the 2020 war, during border demarcation, when an  Azerbaijani commander showed disrespect to an Armenian soldier and  beat him in public, was dismissed from the army by the Armenian  command.