The law enforcement system of Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has committed yet another ignorant and incomprehensible, clearly panicky actions, Artsvik Minasyan, secretary of the parliamentary faction of the Armenia opposition blo said at the French Square on Friday.
This, according to him, is about several specific incidents. Thus, a criminal case was opened against Artsvik Minasyan and MP from the opposition bloc I have the Honor Taron Markaryan.
According to Minasyan, he and Markaryan are suspected of distributing money to the participants of one of the opposition rallies.
“The criminal case was initiated on May 6 in the Armavir province. We were informed that Taron Markaryan and I allegedly handed out money to the participants of the action,” Minasyan said.
The parliamentarian assured that the case initiated against him and his colleague was fabricated.
“This is the political persecution of opponents by the current government and nothing more,” the opposition leader said.
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