"WHY IS MY NAME KAREN?"

A1+
[01:42 pm] 30 September, 2008

The October 19 Echmiazin district head elections haven’t kicked
off, yet there are already a number of registered electoral fraud
cases. People who have nothing to do with politics are being forced to
run in the elections and are under prosecution. This mainly concerns
Karen Grigoryan who works at Hakob Hakobyan’s gas station. Why is
Karen under prosecution? The answer is simple: he is the son of
general Manvel Grigoryan and the son of a general is running in the
Echmiazin district head elections. Recently, there was a press article
according to which Karen Grigoryan was kidnapped by the command of
General Manvel Grigoryan.

"How can I tell them that he wasn’t kidnapped so that they will
understand?" told "A1+" the mother of Karen Grigoryan Susanna
Hambartsumyan. She also informed that it all began when there was a
rumor flying around that Karen was going to run for Echmiazin district
head. "I personally called our family friend Artur and asked him
to take Karen and his wife out of town for a couple of days. At the
time my son didn’t even know that I was the one who organized that. I
had informed the investigators as well," said Mrs. Susanna. Hakob
Hakobyan knew that Karen had escaped and took him to the police as
soon as he came back to Echmiazin. "My son didn’t come back until
late night. I called him and he told me that they had taken him to
the police station for investigation," said Mrs. Susanna crying. The
next day the investigators came to the house, prosecuted him and took
Karen to the Yerevan investigation division. It is still unclear
as to how it will all end. "My son was so terrified by all of the
investigations that he kept on asking me why I had named him Karen,"
said Mrs. Susanna crying.

The Echmiazin district head election campaign will officially kick
off on September 30 and the elections will be held on October 19.