Late last night, Vahan Badasyan, chairman of the United Armenia party of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), was charged and a petition was filed with the court that he be arrested; Badasyan's attorney, Arayik Papikyan, told this to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He added that his client was charged under the Criminal Code article on making public calls for seizing power, violating territorial integrity, or the forcible overthrow of the constitutional order.

Badasyan does not accept the accusation leveled against him.

Earlier, Armenian News-NEWS.am reported that Vahan Badasyan on Thursday had told reporters at Yerablur Military Pantheon in Yerevan that Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan should step down. "If he does not leave [power], then we will eliminate [him] physically, with weapons. I will start organizing." After that, he was apprehended by the National Security Service of Armenia.