Category: 2021

During a conversation with Armenian News-NEWS.am, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Harutyun Marutyan said the Museum-Institute holds at least two temporary exhibitions every year and that this year one of the exhibitions will be devoted to the stories of certain families of victims or survivors of the Armenian Genocide.

Marutyan explained that the exhibitions are usually devoted to a general topic, but this time the Museum-Institute decided to cover this topic and present the destinies of families. He added that the second temporary exhibition will be held in the fall.

“There were several educational institutions that operated in the Ottoman Empire and Western Armenia. The Museum-Institute has preserved the graduation certificates that were granted by those institutions,” Marutyan said and mentioned that the Museum-Institute recently presented a book presenting the memories of those who survived the Armenian Genocide, has published four books and will publish another three or four this year.

I can’t say whether courts will maintain their high reputation, but I hope so because, unlike the law-enforcement system which has almost completely turned into a repressive system, we see judges make adequate and reasonable decisions and behave adequately and reasonably every now and then. This is what co-founder of Quartet Media Arman Saghatelyan told reporters today, touching upon the detention of former chief of staff of the National Assembly of Armenia Ara Saghatelyan.

According to Arman Saghatelyan, the judiciary is the institution that is currently trying to go against the political orders and cheap shows.

When told that the detainees are high-level experts and asked if the fact that they are targeted by the authorities is by chance, Saghatelyan said the following:

“I can say that Karen Bekaryan and Ara Saghatelyan are major analysts with many years of experience in their respective fields. Azerbaijani propagandists have been afraid of them for a long time, and the detention of these two has already sparked great excitement in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijanis welcome the fact that they are detained.”

Arman Saghatelyan added that this is a process of political repressions and that the authorities are trying to silence and isolate the analysts.

The court is currently examining the appeal of Ara Saghatelyan’s attorney against the decision on his detention.

The National Security Service of Armenia has detained former chief of staff of the National Assembly Ara Saghatelyan, co-founder of Quartet Media Karen Bekaryan and manager of the office of International Center for Development of Parliamentarism NGO Mher Avagyan. They are detained under particular articles of the Criminal Code of Armenia (inciting national, racial or religious hatred; an organized group making public calls for use of violence, publicly justifying or advocating violence; violating the rules for publication or dissemination of information during the legal regime of martial law).

A little while ago, the Yerevan court of general jurisdiction declared the detention of leader of VETO Movement Narek Malian unlawful. This is what Malian’s attorney Tigran Atanesyan told reporters in the courtyard.

Earlier, Atanesyan had reported that Narek Malian was detained for making public calls for use of violence, publicly justifying or advocating violence.

Yesterday the performance “Execution of Ceausescu or death to traitors” staged by Malian was supposed to be held at Liberty Square, but he had been detained before that.

Nobody gave a full explanation about what my mobile phone or office computer had to do with the search for a fake user account, and what was also unclear was the reason for my apprehension. This is what Azerologist Anzhela Elibegova told reporters today, adding that even though she was released from the National Security Service building early, she wasn’t able to exercise her right to a call.

“Besides that, after I exited the building, I found out that an attorney had been trying to enter the building for nearly an hour. I believe the process isn’t over yet. In any case, for unknown reasons, I still don’t have my mobile phone and office computer and can’t do my job,” she said.

Elibegova stated that the apprehended and detained persons were very actively involved in the information wars against Azerbaijan.

The Yerevan court of general jurisdiction today ruled to release Mher Avagyan, who had been detained under the criminal case regarding the “Gagik Soghomonyan” fake Facebook user account.

Avagyan’s attorney Mikayel Shkhimyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am that the court declared the decision of the investigator of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia to detain Mher Avagyan unlawful, satisfied the attorney’s appeal and rejected the motion of the investigator to select arrest as a pre-trial measure for Avagyan.

On Feb. 19, officers of the NSS conducted searches in the offices of former chief of staff of the National Assembly Ara Saghatelyan, analyst Karen Bekaryan, Azerologist Anzhela Elibegova and constitutional expert Gohar Meloyan, seized their phones and computers and apprehended them.

Elibegova and Meloyan were released and refused to testify, while Karen Bekaryan, Ara Saghatelyan, Mher Avagyan and Aram Sargsyan were detained.

Today the court ruled to arrest citizen Aram Sargsyan.

Hero of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Arshavir Gharamyan today posted the following on his Facebook page:

“They talk about legitimacy. Over the past three years, the indifferent silence of the so-called international community in regard to the internal and external processes in Armenia (Republic of Armenia and Republic of Artsakh), as well as the encroachments against Armenia and the Armenian people show that Armenia has perished from the political map of the world as an entity and has remained as an object on the physical map of the world.

P.S.: While some of the main players of the political field are developing and enhancing a “plan”, others are preparing to implement “Plan A” or “Plan B”.”

A little while ago, the Yerevan court of general jurisdiction finished examining the appeal filed by the attorney of co-founder of Quartet Media, political analyst Karen Bekaryan against the decision on his detention, as well as the motion of the investigator of the National Security Service (NSS) to choose arrest as a pre-trial measure for him, as reported attorney Gor Mikayelyan to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Mikayelyan informed that the judge has left for the consultation room and that the decision will be announced tomorrow at 11:30 a.m.

The NSS has detained former chief of staff of the National Security Service Ara Saghatelyan, co-founder of Quartet Media Karen Bekaryan, office manager of the International Center for Development of Parliamentarism NGO Mher Avagyan and citizen Aram Sargsyan, who was arrested upon a court decision today.

They are detained under the elements of particular articles of the Criminal Code of Armenia (inciting national, racial or religious hatred; an organized group making public calls for use of violence, publicly justifying or advocating violence; violating the rules for publication or dissemination of information during the legal regime of martial law).

Today the court ruled to arrest Aram Sargsyan and released Mher Avagyan.

The Yerevan court of general jurisdiction today ruled to arrest former chief of staff of the National Assembly of Armenia Ara Saghatelyan who was detained under the criminal case regarding the fake “Gagik Soghomonyan” Facebook user account.

In an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am, Saghatelyan’s attorney Hakob Yenokyan informed that the court had declared the motion of the investigator of the National Security Service (NSS) on detention of Saghatelyan unlawful and satisfied the attorney’s appeal, as well as upheld the motion of the investigator of the NSS to choose arrest as a pre-trial measure for him.

The NSS has detained former chief of staff of the National Security Service Ara Saghatelyan, co-founder of Quartet Media Karen Bekaryan, office manager of the International Center for Development of Parliamentarism NGO Mher Avagyan and citizen Aram Sargsyan, who was arrested upon a court decision today.

Today the court ruled to arrest Aram Sargsyan and released Mher Avagyan.

They are detained under the elements of particular articles of the Criminal Code of Armenia (inciting national, racial or religious hatred; an organized group making public calls for use of violence, publicly justifying or advocating violence; violating the rules for publication or dissemination of information during the legal regime of martial law).