RPA: Today there are more than 30 political prisoners in Armenia and  the struggle for their release is not over

ArmInfo.  Today there are more than 30 political prisoners in Armenia, but the struggle for their release is not over. Armen Ashotyan, Deputy Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia, stated this in a conversation with  journalists on August 22.

"Perhaps the opposition is not fighting hard enough to secure their  release or is not covering this fight well enough, but  society  also  appears to be passive. If at least 5% of the people who have a photo  of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan or have ever wanted to greet him had  shown up at the courtroom, posted on Facebook, taken part in protests  or pickets, I am confident that both His Holiness and all  other  unjustly imprisoned people would have been released very quickly.  Under public pressure, Nikol Pashinyan would have been compelled to  take this step, as the issues arising from this pressure are more  important to him than the problem of having political prisoners," the  politician said.