Opposition lawmaker Tigran Abrahamyan has visited Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, the leader of the Holy Struggle movement, at the Yerevan-Kentron Penitentiary.

“Archbishop Bagrat has been detained for approximately nine months, and the case brought against him and the movement’s activists has long since fallen apart,” he wrote on Facebook on Monday.

“From the outset, this case was built on falsifications, defamation and political directives, and it has no legal basis or prospect of success.

“Freedom to Archbishop Bagrat and all others facing political persecution,” Abrahamyan added.