A first instance court in Armenia’s Armavir Province has ordered the release of two members of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) party, Aramayis Mkhitaryan and Aleksan Aleksanyan, ARF Supreme Council member Lilit Galstyan, an MP from the opposition Hayastan bloc, said on Thursday.

The two oppositionists, who were arrested after security officers raided the ARF office in Armavir on May 8, have been released on bail.

“The prosecution, in fact the political persecution, of my fellow ARF members, who are participants in the three Artsakh wars, began after a telephone conversation of unknown origin was released on the pro-government news site Media News,” Galstyan wrote on Facebook.

They were held in pre-trial custody for two months.