Opposition lawmaker: no legality in latest arrests

PanARMENIAN.Net - Kristine Vardanyan, a member of parliament from the opposition “Armenia” faction, responded to the recently published “coup plan,” calling it something that could easily be fabricated in countless ways without much effort, Radar Armenia reported.

“It was also unclear what exactly was illegal in the document, even if it were real. This only reminds me of Stalinist repressions—hard to think of anything else. We’re talking about nearly twenty people, searches have been conducted, and people have been taken for questioning. This has nothing to do with a legal process,” she said.

On the morning of June 25, law enforcement launched searches at homes of supporters of the “Holy Struggle” movement. The Investigative Committee stated that participants and leaders of the movement had planned terrorist acts and a seizure of power in Armenia.

On June 24, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shared an article titled “The opposition's coup plan” from civic.am and commented, “This process will go down in history as the ‘failed coup of traitors.’”