"Hraparak" writes that Aregnaz Manukyan, a member of the "Mother Armenia" party, former deputy, who is currently under arrest in the women's "Abovyan" penal institution, according to our information, is sitting in the same cell where the former consul in Austria Ashkhen Aleksanyan and a woman accused of fraud are being held.
It should be reminded that the legal assessment given to Ashkhen Aleksanyan's act was changed in the court. At first he was accused of high treason, then the court acquitted him of high treason, but he was accused of abusing official powers and sentenced to 2 years in prison in April 2026. He will have to remain in prison for another year if he is not released on parole. Aregnaz Manukyan himself was arrested on July 9, 2026, and then detained on the charge of publishing information containing state secrets.
He and Andranik Tevanyan are accused in the framework of the same case, according to the lawyers, the accusation is groundless and political. We should remind that a large number of public figures, especially women, demanded the release of Aregnaz Manukyan, and yesterday several actions were held in Yerevan demanding his release.
