YEREVAN. – If a court finds a person guilty, he, including Shant Harutyunyan, will be held accountable for the crime he has committed, Armenian Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan told reporters on Thursday.   

To the query as to the extent of the lawfulness of the actions being taken against Harutyunyan, Kostanyan specifically replied as follows:

“The examination of the case into Shant Harutyunyan is in progress. And if anyone finds any decision by the investigator or the prosecutor to be unlawful, he can make an objection.”      

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, 2013—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 38 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, sixteen people, including police officers and the Armenian News-NEWS.am reporter, were injured.