VETO social-political movement issued on Saturday a statement in connection with the detention of its founder Narek Malyan. As reported earlier, a group of plainclothes police officers detained opposition activists Malyan ahead of the nationwide rally at 15.00 in the Liberty square. 

“Yesterday’s developments came to show that the capitulant authorities will continue resorting to transgressions to suppress the freedom of speech and persecute their political opponents,” the statement said , referring to the detention of number of opposition activists and public figures by the country’s National Security Service (NSS), political scientists Anzhela Elibekova, Karen Bekaryan as well as former National Assembly Chief of Staff Ara Saghatelyan among them. 

“We assure that miserable attempts to silence us will fail,” the statement added, calling on the citizens to join the rally at 14.00 at Liberty square where the members of the movement plan to stage a futuristic performance named “The execution of Ceaușescu or death to the traitors.”