Armenian investigators reportedly raided the homes of supporters of a radical opposition group on Monday one day after three men linked to it detonated a hand grenade at the entrance to a police station in Yerevan.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said on Thursday that it has arrested five members of an armed group that plotted to seize government buildings and “disrupt the work of state bodies.”
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Nine Sentenced Over 2016 Attack On Armenian Police Station
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An Armenian court gave on Wednesday prison sentences ranging from about 5 to 25 years to nine key members of an armed anti-government group that seized a police base in Yerevan in July 2016.
The defendants and two dozen other gunmen stormed the base to demand that then President Serzh Sarkisian free Zhirayr Sefilian, the jailed leader of their radical opposition movement, and step down.
The gunmen, who took police officers and medical personnel hostage, laid down their weapons after a two-week standoff with security forces which left three police officers dead.
All but two members of the armed group called Sasna Tsrer were set free pending the outcome of their trials shortly after Sarkisian was toppled in the 2018 “Velvet Revolution” led by Nikol Pashinian.