Oppositionist: Nikol Pashinyan uses all illegal methods to combat dissenters, including Samvel Karapetyan

ArmInfo. Expectations from Armenia's courts have been reduced to zero, but even so, it is necessary to stand by political prisoners, including Samvel  Karapetyan. Hayk Mamijanyan, leader of the parliamentary opposition  faction "With Honor," told reporters on November 17.

According to him, one example of this lawlessness is the decision  made by the Public Services Regulatory Commission to revoke  electricity distribution license of the Electric Networks of Armenia  CJSC, which is part of the Tashir Group. "It's no secret that current  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is resorting to every illegal means to  suppress dissenters, including against Samvel Karapetyan, given the  latter's weight and influence in the Republic of Armenia and beyond.  I am confident that Samvel Karapetyan could have predicted what is  happening, including regarding the networks, and his determination  remains unshaken," Mamijanyan noted.

He added that the current government relies on the security forces,  while the opposition relies on patriotic citizens. "If this  opposition can prove that Pashinyan's supporters are a small group of  people, marginalized individuals who have no basis for representing  the Republic of Armenia, then the situation will be resolved," the  parliamentarian concluded.