Alexander Arzumanyan arrested

11/05/2007

Yesterday the head of “National Disagreement movement” and RA former foreign affairs minister, Alexander Arzumanyan, was arrested by National Security Service officers near his apartment. We were informed by his lawyer yesterday that the NSS officers said that they had called Mr. Arzumanyan to the NSS office to be questioned, and indeed he had refused, which is why they had to arrest him. Nevertheless, the lawyer assures that Mr. Arzumanyan has not received any request to be questioned. Mr. Arzumanyan was taken to the criminal investigation department. By the way, the lawyer says that Arzumanyan is “suspected in an action that does not exist or is not interpreted in the Criminal Code”.