ArmInfo. Shortly before our press conferences employees of the NSS Armenia from the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" office Party member Artsvik Minasyan was brought in. ARF member Lilit Galstyan announced this at a press conference.
She noted that representatives of the Rodina party Arsen Babayan and the head of the Council of the National Agenda party Ara Hakobyan were also detained.
Note that a rally was held yesterday, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Today, a few minutes before the start of the press conference, protesters gathered again to protest. "Today we were going to present our next steps in connection with the demand for Pashinyan's resignation. However, NSS employees brought several opposition figures directly from our office. The number of political prisoners in Armenia is increasing. Since yesterday, police officers began to detain the participants of our meeting. The authorities have begun to hunt for those who are trying to express an alternative opinion to the owl, "Galstyan emphasized.
It should be noted that yesterday the head of the Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan, press secretary of the Republican Party of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov, representative of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun party Gegham Manukyan, RPA member David Hambartsumyan, former vice-speaker of the National Assembly Ara Sahakyan, Vahagn Chakhalyan and Hrachya Ghukasyan. They also detained the representative of the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" party Ishkhan Saghatelyan, the head of the "National Security" party Garnik Isagulyan, the head of the "United Armenia" party Artur Gazinyan.