New Armenia Front has disseminated a statement wherein in again reports political persecution of its activists opposing the Constitutional amendments.
According to the statement, police officers "visited" the parents of activists Armen Mikaelyan without explaining the reason of their visit. After the activists contacted his parent by phone and then the police officer and asked him to introduce himself, the latter switched his phone off, apologized and left the house immediately. The authors of the statement say the police are tapping the phones of the opposition activists and try to coerce them.
Earlier, on November 10, a group of Police officers visited Zhirayr Sefilyan, the leader of the United Opposition Headquarter running against the president-initiated Constitutional Amendments, and demanded him to appear before the Investigation Committee on November 11 in the morning for interrogation over the case on organizations of civil unrest on April 24 2015.
The case was initiated on April 7, but all the suspects were released for recognizance not to leave. According to the United Opposition Headquarter press-office, Sefilyan did not let the police officers in his apartment, but promised to contact the investigator over the issue. To recall, Zhrayr Sefilyan has said recently that United Opposition Headquarters is determined to achieve a power change in Armenia by all means possible.