ArmInfo. The son of Shant Harutyunyan, the convicted person for violent disobedience to the representative of power, starts from today preparations for peaceful disobedience actions, which, he said on his Facebook page, will begin on October 7. Shant Harutyunyan demands an immediate justification for his father, whom, while still an oppositionist, the current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called a political prisoner.
He also requires a large-scale amnesty in the country, which will be evidence of the manifestation of the principles of "love and tolerance", promulgated by the velvet revolution. "There is no need to talk about the need for amnesty in Armenia, since it has not been announced in the republic for five years," Harutyunyan said.
"Unfortunately, our expectations have not materialized, and we begin peaceful protests from October 7," wrote Harutyunyan's son.
To note, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan suggested Shant Harutyunyan to change the measure of restraint against him from arrest to a written undertaking not to leave the country and at liberty to await the verdict. However, Harutyunyan refused, believing that he was not guilty and should be justified. Pashinyan noted that he has no right to interfere in the activities of the judiciary and dictate verdicts.
Just a day after this message, a wiretap between the heads of the National Security Service and the Special Investigative Service appeared where the head of the SIS admitted to the director of the National Security Service that the instruction to "close" Yuri Khachaturov, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, came to him precisely from PM Pashinyan. Subsequently, Pashinyan presented a different chronology of the events, arguing that he had not instructed to arrest Khachaturov and the head of the SIS advised him that he wanted to do this, and he himself said that if there were legitimate reasons for that, he did not see anything reprehensible.