Saturday, February 20 2021 13:41

ArmInfo. The defense of Karen Bekaryan, co-founder of the media holding "Karyak Media", who was detained by the employees of the National Security Service of  Armenia the day before, denies the involvement of his client in any  fakes.

Thus, Bekaryan's lawyer Gor Mikaelyan on his Facebook page wrote that  his client was detained in an already known case.

"A complaint about the legality of the detention of my client was  filed in the evening to the court of first instance of the city of  Yerevan. I declare that mine Karen Bekaryan's client has nothing to  do with the Facebook fake. If he needs to say something, he always  says it openly on his own behalf, not hiding under a fake, " - said  Mikaelyan.

It should be noted that yesterday evening, the NSS of Armenia  conducted searches in the houses and offices of political scientist,  co-founder of the media holding "Karyak Media" Karen Bekaryan, former  head of the parliamentary apparatus Ara Saghatelyan and his assistant  Mher Avagyan, expert on geopolitics of the South Caucasus Angela  Elibegovu on constitutional law specialist Melibegovu and legal  specialist ...  As human rights activist Ruben Melikyan told  journalists in the evening, the above persons are accused of  violating the rules for disseminating information during martial law  and spreading interethnic hostility and hatred. Melikyan said that  the lawyers of the detainees intend to appeal the decisions on the  detention, while calling the process political persecution.

At night, Angela Elibekova and Gohar Meloyan were released after  interrogation. Elibekova said that her laptop and mobile phone were  confiscated.

"I have no idea about what is happening and I do not know why I ended  up in the building of the National Security Service. They seized my  personal phone and work computer, which contained working  information, including information about the war crimes of  Azerbaijan, which I had to hand over to the Ombudsman of Armenia,"  Elibegova told reporters.

In turn, Meloyan added that at first in their offices a search was  carried out, after which they were subjected to a drive, without  showing the court's decision to conduct a search. "I can't say within  whom the search was carried out. They confiscated a number of  personal belongings, computers, fully examined the folders where they  were not interested materials, "she said, adding that they were  interrogated as suspects and they refused to testify.