The Strong Armenia candidate for the post of head of the Stepanavan community died in prison.

ArmInfo. Arsen Gevorgyan, the Strong Armenia party's candidate for the post of head of the Stepanavan community, has died in custody. The party's head of communications and public relations, Nelly Avetisyan, confirmed the information to ArmInfo.

Gevorgyan was 46 years old. "Candidate for the post of head of the Stepanavan community, Arsen Gevorgyan, died in custody," Avetisyan reported. According to Armenian media reports, he suffered a heart attack.

On October 21, the Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia opened a criminal case against Arsen Gevorgyan, who headed the Strong Armenia party's proportional list in the Stepanavan Municipal Council elections, and 13 other individuals. It was later revealed that by court order, Gevorkyan was jailed for two months. Five others were placed under two-month jail terms or house arrest.

Notably, the day before these events, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan offered to personally contact those citizens and candidates for community heads in the local government elections who were under pressure from the ruling Civil Contract party. However, by the evening of that same day, he himself had begun threatening opposition representatives. It's worth noting that all of this occurred before the local government elections in Stepanavan.