Former Member of Parliament from the Prosperous Armenia party Gevorg Petrosyan, an outspoken critic of the Pashinyan regime, was detained on Sunday, March 12 by Yerevan patrol officers, supposedly for not obeying the demands of the patrol officers and refused to take a sobriety test.
As his lawyer Raffi Aslanyan later reported, Gevorg Petrosyan was detained on suspicion of “use of violence and interference in the work of the patrol service.” The lawyer also published video frames on social networks, which depicted the road episode, which formed the basis of Petrosyan’s detention.
“The actions on the video in no way correspond to the violations that Petrosyan is suspected of, he carefully tried to bypass them and continued moving to the courtyard of the house, stopping there to clarify the suspicious persecution on the spot,” Aslanyan wrote.
Gevorg Petrosyan was later released by the decision of the investigator. “At least for me, it is clear that the suspicion of ‘use of violence and interference in the work of the patrol service’ has not been confirmed,” his lawyer Raffi Aslanyan said on social networks.
