YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am) Law-enforcement authorities arrested on Friday the elected heads of two more communities of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province affiliated with the main opposition Hayastan bloc.
Four other local government officials were arrested earlier this month on different charges condemned by the bloc as politically motivated.
The latest detainees run the Syunik communities comprising the towns of Goris and Sisian and surrounding villages.
Goris’s Arush Arushanyan, was remanded in pre-trial custody after being charged with trying to buy votes ahead of the June 20 parliamentary elections.
The Special Investigative Service (SIS) claims that Arushanyan ordered the head of a village close to Goris to provide financial aid to local residents who will promise to vote for Hayastan. It says that the village chief, Lusine Avetyan, refused to do that.
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