I have expressed my point of view, we have expressed our collective point of view. What point of view should I express so that everyone can understand that Armen Ashotyan is a political prisoner, that they have isolated him just out of some fears? Serzh Sargsyan, the third President of Armenia, told this to reporters Friday.

"Not only to isolate from issues related to Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)], in general, from the internal political situation, from relations with our international partners. It is very obvious," he added.

"Different polls are published, and see what most people think in that regard. There is nothing suspicious here. When they freeze the 4-year-old criminal case, they don't interrogate the same Armen Ashotyan several times, and then they invent something fictitious to allegedly violating the terms of the restraining order, and change the restraining order and isolate Armen Ashotyan. It is obvious that everything there is concocted," Sargsyan said.

Armen Ashotyan, former ruling party vice-chairman and ex-Minister of Education and Science of Armenia, has been placed under arrest for two months in connection with a criminal case related to Mikayel Narimanyan, former Rector of Yerevan State Medical University.