The court has softened the preventive measure for Arekhnaz Manukyan.
Board member of the "Mother Armenia" party, Arekhnaz Manukyan, accused of disclosing state secrets, has been placed under house arrest.
As reported by "Caucasian Knot", on September 8 in Yerevan, preliminary hearings began in the case of the leader of the "Mother Armenia" party, Andranik Tevanyan, and board member Arekhnaz Manukyan. The court extended the detention for both: for Tevanyan for three months, and for Manukyan for one month.
The leader of the "Mother Armenia" party, Andranik Tevanyan, who was second on the candidate list of the "Prosperous Armenia" party during the parliamentary elections, was arrested at the end of May on charges of treason and espionage. In July, a candidate for deputy from the "Prosperous Armenia" party, Arekhnaz Manukyan, was also arrested for two months, accused of disclosing state secrets. On August 21, the Court of Appeals softened the conditions of Manukyan's detention, allowing her to communicate with close relatives.
The court in Yerevan granted the defense's petition and softened the preventive measure for board member of the "Mother Armenia" party and candidate for deputy from the "Prosperous Armenia" party, Arekhnaz Manukyan.
Manukyan has been placed under house arrest with a ban on communication with third parties, as reported by the news agency "News Armenia" citing lawyer Tatevik Sogoyan.
Arekhnaz Manukyan had been in pre-trial detention since July 9. A month before her arrest, she was interrogated as a witness in the Tevanyan case, and investigators conducted a search in her apartment.
"Caucasian Knot" reported that on May 20, during the election campaign, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the National Security Service would send materials to the Investigative Committee for criminal prosecution of Andranik Tevanyan for treason, and the next day the Investigative Committee opened a case against Tevanyan. As a result of the elections, the "Prosperous Armenia" party, which nominated Tevanyan and Manukyan, failed to overcome the four percent barrier and enter parliament.
According to the investigation, Tevanyan, in 2024, for a reward of $622,000, transferred information from a closed parliamentary session containing state secrets to a foreign intelligence service. Tevanyan called the accusations "absurd," as he had resigned from his deputy mandate in 2023 and could not participate in closed parliamentary hearings in 2024. On September 8, Tevanyan's lawyer, Aram Orbelian, reported that after the preliminary investigation, these episodes were removed from the charges against Tevanyan.