"Authorities have recently started actions aimed at silencing the opposition representatives through courts," Armenia's former Chief of the National Security Service, the leader of 'Homeland' party Artur Vanetsyan has said. 

Venstayn commented on the charges brought against Ruben Vardazaryan, the Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), a state body overseeing the country’s judiciary. To remind, following the criminal prosecution, Vardazaryan's powers were terminated  as chairman of SJC and a court judge, pending the investigation into a criminal case. 

"Mr Vardazaryan's guilt, as I see, was that he tried to exercise his constitutional rights and capacities and the authorities didn't like that. As you know, the authorities have recently started actions to silence all members of the opposition through courts," said Vanetsyan.