Killed soldier`s mother detained on charge of `attempted kidnapping`  of Armenian premier`s son  

ArmInfo. Gayane Hakobyan, mother of a soldier killed in the 44-day war, who was detained on a charge of  "attempted kidnapping" of Ashot Pashinyan, son of Armenia's Premier Nikol Pashinyan, has been transported from hospital to a detention center, lawyer Ruben Melikyan reported in a Facebook post. 

"Late last night, Ms Hakobyan was transferred from the Erebouni  medical center to the detention center.  Today, she is to have a  confrontation with Ashot Pashinyan, who claims she kidnapped him," Mr  Melikyan wrote.   

"I am drawing the attention of people who saw the well-known video,  which proved to be at the Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper's disposal in  an uncertain way, to the fact that only two persons - Ms Hakobyan  (the driver) and Ashot Pashinyan (the passenger) - were in the car at  the moment. The latter claims he was being kidnapped at that moment,"  Mr Melikyan wrote.  

The Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper, which is owned by the Armenian  premier's family, reported yesterday that attempted kidnapping of  Ashot Pashinyan had happened.  

"According to the preliminary information, the kidnappers are members  of the 'Sons' call' NGO, who forced Ashot Pashinyan to get into their  car. At the moment the car stopped, he could jump out of it, but was  hit by a car being driven by other members of the NGO. He harmed his  leg, and the NGO members fled the scene. Ashot Pashinyan reported the  incident to law-enforcers," the newspaper wrote.  

The newspaper is accusing Garik Galeyan, father the killed soldier  Mkhitar Galeyan, of being involved in the incident. 

In response, the "Sons' call" NGO issued a statement saying that,  after coming out of the court the NGO members ran across Ashot  Pashinyan. Three women approached him and offered him to get into the  car with one of them and go to the Yerablur pantheon. 

"On the way, for some unaccountable reason, Ashot Pashinyan jumped  out of the car. There was nobody in the car except for him and the  woman-driver. The rest information is true," the statement reads.  

Law-enforcers launched an investigation based on Ashot Pashinyan's  report.