YEREVAN. Armenian political prisoners Nikol Pashinyan and Sasun Mikaelyan will be released on May 28, Hraparak newspaper reports citing a reliable source.

A day before President of Armenia will sign a decree of pardon.

Pashinyan and Mikaelyan will deliver speeches at the rally, to be held by oppositional Armenian Nastional Congress (ANC) on May 31.

A former Armenian MP, a veteran of Karabakh war Sasun Mikaelyan was sentenced to 8-years imprisonment and Nikol Pashinyan to 7,5 years’ imprisonment for  their involvement in March 1, 2008 events where 10 people were killed and many injured in Yerevan.