ALEXANDER ARZUMANYAN IS PERSECUTED
Support A1+!“Once I was a political prisoner while now I am persecuted. Only the restraint has been replaced,” said Armenian Ex-Foreign Minister Alexander Arzumanyan, the initiator of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
To remind, Arzumanyan was released from the isolation ward of the National Security Service on September 6. The preventive punishment was his signature not to leave Armenia. Arzumanyan was charged with “money laundering.”
Alexander Arzumanyan was set free four months after his arrest when the report on the investigation of his case was submitted to Aghvan Hovsepyan.
The Armenian ex-foreign minister says both his arrest and release are manifestations of arbitrariness in Armenia. “There was no case. There were no criminal charges. I must restore my reputation. They pinned labels on me. The prosecutor states to the country that there was a crime, the National Security Service only needs to prove that Sashik Aghazaryan’s money is illegal. In other words, they only need to do what is needed to consider and suspect someone of money laundering. In other words, it shows that they took me to the isolation ward four months ago for nothing, and put up a case,” Alexander Arzumanyan says.
Alexander Arzumanyan says he will have everyone apologize to him. “I expect the apology of everyone who was involved in this case, who instructed and who fulfilled the instructions. Let them tell me who was involved in my illegal arrest and apologize to me,” Alexander Arzumanyan says.
Arzumanyan thinks both his arrest and release are the problem of the people who gave instructions. He does not know yet why he was arrested and what they feared. “If they arrested on a put-up charge, they were afraid of something. If I am a political figure who scares some people, I am proud of it,” Alexander Arzumanyan says. According to him, his arrest might be a signal for other political figures to behave themselves otherwise they will be punished like me.
Alexander Arzumanyan thanked reporters for support. He believes reporters do the real work, while the politicians do not. Alexander Arzumanyan also said he was treated well at the isolation ward. “People know what is going on in our country. I am respected not only in the street, in the neighborhood, but also in prison, the ex-foreign minister stated.
Arzumanyan is not going to leave politics. He is not certain yet whether the Civil Disobedience will participate at the presidential elections as a separate organization, or whether it will ally with its proponents.
In reply to the question whether his arrest was determined by the upcoming presidential elections, Arzumanyan said, “Everything in this country is connected with the presidential elections, even everyday shopping.”
Being a liberal sphere representative and an ordinary Armenian Pan-National Movement (HHSh) member Alexander Arzumanyan is happy to see Levon Ter-Petrosyan back in politics.
