YEREVAN. – The Kentron and Nork Marash General Jurisdiction Court—in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan—on Saturday extended Shant Harutyunyan’s period of arrest for two months.  

Harutyunyan’s attorney Inesa Petrosyan told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

Petrosyan noted that Harutyunyan was edgy. He also made a statement during the court session, and said that the defender of the independence and sovereignty of Armenia is being tried on behalf of the Republic of Armenia, and that this is the tragedy of the Armenian nation.     

The United National Initiative leader and activist Shant Harutyunyan who heads a nationalist party, and who had announced about starting a revolution, on November 5—and with close to several dozen supporters wearing Guy Fawkes “Anonymous masks”—had started a march toward the Presidential Palace, but the police had stopped the march.

As a result, there was a scuffle, and the police detained 37 activists, including Harutyunyan and his son. Subsequently, 20 of them, including Harutyunyan, were arrested, charges were laid against six of them and, consequently, they were incarcerated. As a result of the melee, about a dozen people, including police officers, were injured.