Green Future environmental movement leader Vahagn Varagyan posted the following on his Facebook page:

“After the comment that I posted on my Facebook page yesterday in regard to Chairperson of the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction Artur Mkrtchyan, various human rights activists and journalists have been asking me questions about the incident that took place yesterday. With full responsibility and clearly aware about the grave crime, I insist that yesterday at around 10:00-11:00 p.m. Chairperson of the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction Artur Mkrtchyan screamed the following during a telephone conversation at Triumph Café located at Isahakyan Street.: “Who cares if they have minor children and they can’t be deprived of liberty by law, they swore at the director of the National Security Service, they need to be sentenced, do whatever has to be done to sentence them, boy.”

Not only my friends who were with me, but also the surveillance cameras in the café can affirm the fact that Artur Mkrtchyan was at Triumph Café at that hour and was mixed up and walking from one table to the next while talking on the phone. Moreover, it is suffice to check to see which person with three minor children was arrested by the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction yesterday after 10 p.m., and it will be clear as to which person was unlawfully arrested by the direct assignment of Artur Mkrtchyan. I am ready to be interviewed by any investigative body in regard to these facts. At the same time, I ask everyone to view this Facebook post as a report on crime.”

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