The Yerevan court of general jurisdiction today granted the motion of an investigator of the National Security Service of Armenia to choose arrest as a pre-trial measure against former deputy of the National Assembly of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), freedom fighter Vahan Badasyan, as reported Badasyan’s attorney Arayik Papikyan.
Yesterday the National Security Service detained Vahan Badasyan for the statements he made during a conversation with reporters at Yerablur Military Pantheon in Yerevan.
Badasyan had declared that Nikol Pashinyan needs to be removed from power, and if he doesn’t leave, he must be physically destroyed. “There are various paths to take to remove him, even physically destroying him. This implies destruction of the enemy, perhaps through weapons. Yes, I am consciously threatening, let the National Security Service detain me,” he said.
Badasyan is charged with making public calls for seizure of power, violation of territorial integrity of forceful overthrow of constitutional order.