Attorney Mikayel Shkhimyan posted the following on his Facebook page:

“A little while ago, with the purpose of staging a show in the building of the National Security Service (NSS), officers of the NSS threw my client to the ground in the obscenest way and videotaped him (my client is Mher Avagyan had come to the NSS building with me, his son is a veteran of the 44-day war in Artsakh and continues his military service, defending the borders of Armenia in the sector near Nakhchivan).

I will report other violations committed within the scope of the political case that has been launched.”

Various public and political figures are being apprehended and taken to the NSS for a few hours now. Earlier, masked officers of the NSS apprehended co-founder of Quartet Media, political analyst Karen Bekaryan in his house and took him to the NSS. Officers also conducted a search in the office of former chief of staff of the National Assembly Ara Saghatelyan and two other offices near that office, after which Saghatelyan was taken to the NSS. Azerologist Anzhela Elibegova was also apprehended.