66.8% of respondents in Armenia consider Samvel Karapetyan a  political prisoner - poll

ArmInfo.In Armenia, 66.8% of respondents consider Samvel Karapetyan,  Russian businessman of  Armenian origin and head of the Tashir Group of Companies, detained in Yerevan, to be a political prisoner, as evidenced by the poll results conducted by the consulting company MPG "Northern Lights".

According to the respondents,  other political prisoners include  Armen Ashotyan the Republican Party (20.1%), Varuzhan Avetisyan from  the National Democratic Pole (4.1%), leader of the Sacred Struggle  movement Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan (3.7%), Vardan Ghukasyan  (3.3%), and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan (2.5%), who is currently  detained in Baku.

The majority of respondents in Armenia  assessed Karapetyan's  detention negatively. Specifically, 57.9% of respondents assessed the  detention as absolutely negatively, 19.2% - rather negatively, 4.8% -  rather positively, and only 11.7% fully supported the Armenian  authorities' actions towards the businessman.  Another 6.4% found it  difficult to answer.

Note that the survey was conducted through telephone calls to  residents of the Republic of Armenia from June 23 to June 25 of this  year. The sample size was 1000 people, with a sampling error is +/-  3%.