Petros Makeyan Arrested

PETROS MAKEYAN ARRESTED

Hayots Ashkhar
Tuesday 26 February 2008

On February 25 leader of party "Democratic Motherland" Petros
Makeyan was arrested. He is suspected in hindering the activity of
the electoral committee in precinct 34/06.

The website of the General Persecutor’s reports, on 19.02.2008,
at around 14.30 p.m., chief of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s pre-election
headquarter in Giumry Murad Grigoryan and ex-Chief of Giumry Military
Police Ashot Zakaryan, entered precinct 34/06 in Giumry. They have
started to shout and complain about the issue of putting stamps in
the passports of the voters and in the presence of the voters they
argued with the Chairman and the members of the committee.

After 1-2 minutes Shota Saghatelyan entered the same precinct,
introduced himself as Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s confidant and started
to argue with the members of the committee about the same issue,
hindering their activity.

After which leader of party "Democratic Motherland" Petros Makeyan
entered precinct 34/06 and started to argue with the Chairman and
the members of the committee for around 10 minutes, thus hindering
the activity of the committee.