TBILISI. – Four students of Armenian State Agricultural University are in temporary detention facility in Batumi, in the near future they will be indicted.

On Saturday Armenian News-NEWS.am received a call from Ruben Poghosyan uncle of one of the arrested students, Gagik Poghosyan, who reported some details about the reasons of detention.

According to him, his nephew and his three friends, Hovsep Seymaryan, Tigran Serobyan and Harutyun (surname was not mentioned) were vacationing in the Georgian resort of Kobuleti with their parents. On August 10 they decided to go to Batumi by car.

"On the road to Batumi, a few cars began to file some signals and then approached. People from inside these vehicles began to insult the guys, saying to return to their country and rest there. Aggressors then blocked the car with Armenian numbers. The priest of Batumi was in one of the cars. His brother punched the driver of the Armenian car, who, of course, responded. Then, 30-40 seconds after the incident, police arrested the children and brought to the detention facility of Batumi," said the source, adding that all four have undergone medical examinations – no traces of alcohol and drug were found.

Poghosyan said that parents of students turned to the consul of Armenia in Batumi, the Armenian Embassy in Georgia but received no respond.

“Instead, this Georgian priest went to the police and said that four students beat them - about 15 people altogether.

The parents do not know what to do. On the third day of their detention police appeal to the Court to keep the young people in custody," said Ruben Poghosyan.