"We had information that it is possible that Artur Vanetsyan would also be arrested if he was in the car and that was the reason why he was not with us.
In any case, we are sure that the only purpose of that illegal action of the police was to cause inconvenience, to carry out some kind of process against the political oppositionist," said human rights defender Arsen Babayan, who was arrested yesterday by the criminal police along with his friends, in a conversation with Pastinfo. on groundless suspicion of illegal possession of weapons, then released.
At the time of the incident, they were in the car serving "Hayrenik" party chairman Artur Vanetsyan. According to Arsen Babayan, the police did not predict that he could also be in that car. "What we put on their heads yesterday, it is unlikely that they will do it again, but if they do, we will be more brutal," Babayan noted, adding that the operation carried out by the police on January 10, former head of the National Security Service, leader of the "Hayrenik" party Artur It was not the first case against Vanetsyan's employees and that was the reason why yesterday's retaliatory actions and noise were taken.
During the "arrest" operation, the police said that they suspected illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, but subsequent actions showed that it was just an excuse to organize a "mask show" against the politician's teammates, because none of them had any. illegal weapons, and they tried to deny the arrest of Arsen Babayan from the beginning, finding out his identity.
"My presence hindered their actions. All the arrested were released on the same day, yesterday, but that's not the problem, the problem is that it was the 4th time already. In the same scenario, these guys are arrested, taken and held for 6 hours, released and they know that there can be no other development," said Arsen Babayan.
According to him, the police are creating a theater, while detaining a person without any legal basis is an illegal act, a violation of human rights, because it is not possible to imprison a person for 6 hours just like that. "This is also a classic example of political persecution, to isolate a person without a valid reason or for a fabricated reason based on certain other goals. Moreover, they keep it for 6 hours, not even 3 hours, they don't initiate any criminal case," said Babayan.
