SUSPECT IN COMPLICITY IN MARCH VIOLENCE ACCUSES OPPOSITION MP OF PUTTING PRESSURE ON HIM
ARKA
September 5, 2008
YEREVAN, September 5. /ARKA/. Felix Gevorgyan, who is now kept
in pretrial detention facilities on charge of complicity in March
violence, sent written statement to Prosecutor General’s Office on
Thursday that Armen Martirosyan, an MP from Zharangutyun (Heritage)
opposition party, put psychological pressure on him.
Gevorgyan said that the lawmaker, who visited him in jail, hinted
that the suspect could be arrested on trumped-up charge.
Armenian Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan sent the statement to
Samvel Nikoyan, the chairman of the parliamentary committee set up
for investigating Merch events.