ArmInfo. Famous singer Vahan Artsruni has been recently invited to the National Security Service of Armenia, where he has been questioned for 40 minutes.
The singer's statement reads that NSS employees asked him about his political views, and whether he has participated in protests. The interrogation was not recorded, he was not informed about his rights and after NSS "visit" his page on Facebook was blocked. Related to this a number of human rights defending organizations of Armenia have made a statement, in which they qualified the abovementioned fact as trample of the human rights and freedoms, terror and lawlessness aimed at frightening people and hinder their free expression.
The authors of the statement demand from the NSS to refrain from such illegal steps and bring those responsible for the incident to responsibility.
In this light oppositionist MP Nikol Pashinyan has also made a statement in the National Assembly of Armenia criticizing the methods used by NSS and demanded to stop lawlessness. He also qualified this fact as violation of human rights and political persecution.