Museum officer detained in Armenia

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Deputy director of the Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (the Matenadaran) Arshak Banuchyan has been detained in Armenia. As REGNUM correspondent was informed at the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan's headquarters, Banuchyan is suspected of actions prosecuted by articles 225 (public disorder) and 225 (1) (violating public event order) of Armenia's Criminal Code.

A source at Ter-Petrosyan's office also said that on March 25, Lavrent Khachatryan was brought to a Malatia-Sebastia community police station. According to his relatives' account, Khachatryan witnessed how a police car hit a crowd of protesters in the afternoon of March 1. The police at the station has not confirmed that Khachatryan is at their station.

To remind, Special Investigation Service has initiated criminal action with respect to disorders and clashes between opposition headed by ex-president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan and law-enforcement agencies on March 1, 2008.

As of March 19, 106 people have been arrested. Most of them are Ter-Petrosyan's associates and comrades, including chairman of political council of the Armenian National Movement Party Ararat Zurabyan, member of political council of the “Republic” Party Suren Surenyants, former deputy Prosecutor General Gagik Jangiryan who had joined Ter-Petrosyan, parliament deputies Sasun Mikaelyan, Myasnik Malkhasyan, Hakob Hakobyan, and others.

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