Lawyer Raffi Aslanyan, a former prosecutor of Yerevan, has sharply criticized the Public TV Company for airing an interview with Sasun Mikayelyan, a pro-government MP and chair of the Yerkrapah Volunteers Union, on Friday.

“The Public TV Company had no right to broadcast Sasun Mikayelyan’s interview,” he wrote on Facebook on Saturday.

“It indicates that the state-controlled media wasting public funds couldn't stand above that level,” the lawyer stated.

In the interview aired late on Friday, Mikayelyan responded to his critics using foul language which was censored.