Lawyers for the leader of Mother Armenia filed a complaint against his arrest with the Court of Appeals

ArmInfo. The defense team of Mother Armenia party leader Andranik Tevanyan has filed a complaint against the extension of his pretrial detention with the Court of Appeals, the Mother Armenia movement reported.

Mother Armenia recalled that Tevanyan's pretrial detention was extended for three months on September 8, 2026, by decision of Yerevan Criminal Court Judge John Hayrapetyan. "Tevanyan's lawyers have filed a complaint against the court's decision with the Court of Appeals," the movement said in a Facebook post.

As a reminder, on May 21, the Investigative Committee (IC) of Armenia announced the initiation of a criminal case against Andranik Tevanyan for "treason and espionage." Tevanyan is accused of transferring information containing state secrets to a foreign state for $622,000. On the night of May 24, Tevanyan was placed under two-month arrest by court order. Moreover, according to Tevanyan's lawyer, Aram Orbelyan, there were no legal grounds for his client's arrest at the time. It should be added that the opposition figure's detention occurred on the direct orders of current Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Tevanyan himself called the investigation's allegations absurd, noting that he resigned his parliamentary mandate in 2023 and, therefore, such allegations by the Investigative Committee are groundless. On July 9, Aregnaz Manukyan, a member of the political council of the Mother Armenia party and former member of the Armenian parliament, was arrested and then placed under two-month arrest. According to the Investigative Committee, a public criminal prosecution has been initiated against Aregnaz Manukyan under Part 1 of Article 427 of the Criminal Code (disclosure of information containing a state secret). The investigative actions were carried out as part of a criminal case on espionage and treason, in which the leader of the Mother Armenia party, Andranik Tevanyan, was previously arrested. Manukyan is suspected of passing classified information regarding the Armenian Armed Forces to Tevanyan, which was presented at a closed meeting in parliament.

On August 18, the investigation into the case was completed, and the materials were sent to court, however, both Tevanyan and Manukyan remained in pretrial detention. On September 8, the arrest of the leader of the Mother Armenia party was extended for 3 months. And on September 22, the preventive measure against the board member of the Mother Armenia party was Aregnaz Manukyan's sentence was changed to house arrest with a ban on communication with others.