Co-founder of Quartet Media, political analyst Karen Bekaryan’s attorney Gor Mikayelyan posted the following on his Facebook page:
“I’m not Aram Sargsyan’s attorney, but based on the materials attached to the petition for Mr. Bekaryan’s arrest, it is prima facie clear that Karen Bekaryan, Ara Saghatelyan and Aram Sargsyan can be linked to any fake Facebook user just like each and every one of us. It’s clear that the body implementing proceedings has wrong notions of the work of VPNs and IP addresses, not to mention the mutually exclusive views based on wrong conclusions (i.e. the act was qualified under Article 226 or 226.2 of the Criminal Code of Armenia (inciting national, racial or religious hatred) which is prohibited by the Criminal Code) or the bringing of a charge under Article 307.4 of the Criminal Code of Armenia which has been terminated by the decision of the Constitutional Court of Armenia.
P.S. In these conditions, how could the “wretched” chairperson of the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction ensure fulfilment of the order without harsh repression against judges?”