VAGHARSHAPAT. – Armenia’s Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin) city residents, who are staging a protest against the release of MP and Yerkrapah (Defender of the Land) Volunteer Union Board ex-Chairman, retired General Manvel Grigoryan—who is a resident of this city, have closed off the Vagharshapat-Yerevan motorway.

The Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent reported that those assembled demand that Grigoryan be remanded in custody again.

There is a large number of police officers at the scene of the demonstration.

On late Friday evening, the capital city Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction set Manvel Grigoryan free on an AMD 25mn (approx. US$51,600) bail.

Grigoryan was arrested on June 19. He is charged with unlawfully keeping weapons and ammunition, and committing large-scale embezzlement. In particular, it is about the embezzlement of the aid that was sent during the days of the four-day war in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), in April 2016. 

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