In Yerevan, hundreds of protesters took to the streets after the court arrested Gayane Hakobyan, accused of kidnapping Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s son. reported Sputnik Armenia.
On May 17, pro-government Armenian media reported that members of the Sons’ Call movement tried to kidnap Ashot Pashinyan. According to them, a 23-year-old boy was put in a car, but he managed to jump out of the car. He was wounded in the leg and the kidnappers fled. People’s activists believe that Pashinyan Jr. got in the car himself at the request of Gayane Hakobyan, the mother of one of the soldiers killed in the Second Karabakh War. He is now accused of organizing the kidnapping.
How does the portal transmit? “News-Armenia” Referring to lawyer Vahan Hovhannisyan, the court detained the woman for a month, but the defense plans to appeal this decision.
Sputnik Armenia also reported that after Hakobyan’s arrest, a protest rally started in Yerevan and the participants of this rally were marching from the Republic Square to the government building. The protesters are said to be relatives of the deceased army.
Referring to Gayana Hakobyan, the lawyer of the Legal Way human rights organization Ruben Melikyan, the RIA Novosti agency previously stated that the woman’s hospitalized. According to the information given by Hakobyan’s lawyer, whom the police kept in custody for hours, his health condition worsened. Therefore, he was taken to the medical center by ambulance accompanied by the police.
Source: Gazeta
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