10/02/2014 14:27
HAK activists detained last night
The Armenian police detained nine activists of Armenian National Congress (HAK) Party last night. Administrative cases were opened under Article 172 Part 2 of the RA Administrative Code, according to the press service of the police.
One of those detained – Sargis Gevorgian later told Aysor.am that at night they tried to put up “a portrait of Serzh Sargsyan with the words ‘traitor of the homeland’ written on it” on the wall of a house on Amirian Street in Yerevan.
“We were taken to a police station. Reports were drawn up in about three hours and we were released,” he said.
Areg Gevorgian, Vardan Harutyunian, Tatul Saroyan, David Vardanian, Andranik Davtian, Tatevik Pokhpatian, and Hayk Petrosian were detained.