Today Vazgen Manukyan received a notice, from which it became clear that on February 20, the Investigative Committee of the independent Armenia had launched a criminal case under which it had charged Manukyan with the well-known Article 300.1 (overthrow of the constitutional order) of the Criminal Code. This is what member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun political party Gegham Manukyan stated during today’s rally held by the opposition Homeland Salvation Movement on Marshal Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan.

“Ishkhan Saghatelyan is also charged under Article 300.1, and I think I’m charged under Article 300.1 as well. On February 20, 2021, the Investigative Committee of the independent Armenia charged organizer of the first rally held by the Nagorno-Karabakh movement on February 20, 1988, president of the Karabakh Committee Vazgen Manukyan. It’s fine, Vazgen Manukyan and the others are used to this, send more notices,” he said.