25-year-old Vrezh Galstyan, who was arrested for bursting into the Armenian Parliament's building with a knife on March 25, may be transferred to a psychiatric hospital and freed from punishment, Zhoghovurd (People) newspaper says.
Gor Glechyan, Head of the PR and Media Division of the Penal Execution Department of the Armenian Justice Ministry, told the newspaper that Vrezh Galstyan, who received a gunshot wound, is still undergoing treatment. He is under the doctors' control. The newspaper says that the measure of restraint against Vrezh Galstyan is 2-month imprisonment in Nubarashen penitentiary. However, if the expert examination says that Galstyan has mental disorder, he will be transferred to a psychiatric hospital and freed from punishment.