On Friday, a two -year prison was sentenced to two years in prison after the government was found guilty of overthrowing a prominent cleric in Armenia.
Archbishop Mikel Ajapahan was arrested in June and was accused of being part of the conspiracy of the alleged coup against the Prime Minister’s government. Nicole Pashinian,
Maulvi was found guilty on 24 September. The government was called to uproot. His lawyer, Ara Zoharbian condemned the verdict as being politically motivated.
Ajapahan was prosecuted for only one opinion, Zoharbian said, who vowed to appeal to the decision.
The Armenian Apostolic Church also condemned the verdict, it was politically motivated, described as “one of the clear manifestations of the anti -church campaign of the authorities”.
Officials tried to take Ajapahan into custody in June, causing security forces to face crowds at the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Online -operated video showed Pastor Jostling with police.
After Armenia’s National Security Service, Ajapahan was urged to appear before the officials, showing him entering the construction of Armenia’s search committee. The next day, in a court Yerewan Pratiel ordered Ajapahan to be given a place in custody.
After the arrest of Ajapahan, Archbishop Bagrat Galston, who leads the Holy Sangharsh protest movement. He was accused of plotting a sabotage campaign to overthrow Pashinian, alleging that his lawyer dismissed him as a “story”.
In April 2024, thousands of protesters called for the expulsion of Pashinian, after agreeing to hand over the control of several border villages of Armenia. Azerbaijan And to normalize the relationship between neighbors.
The sacred struggle has strongly opposed the handover of the border villages. Although the regional concession was the main issue of the movement, it has expanded to a wide array of complaints about Pashinian coming to power in 2018.
The Russian-Armenian billionaire Samel Karpaton, who is another vocal critic of Pashinian, was also arrested in June for making calls to overthrow the government, which he refused.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been discontinued in regional disputes since the early 1990s, as various parts of the Soviet Union were suppressed for independence MoscowAfter the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the ethnic Armenian separatist forces supported by the Armenian Army won control over the areas of Karbakh in Azerbaijan and the nearby areas.
In 2020, Azerbaijan removed the broad health in Karbakh and its surrounding area. In September 2023, an electrical military operation fully rectified the control of the region to Azerbaijan, and Armenia later handed over the border villages.
In August, leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan join hands with one white House Summit before signing a deal with the aim of ending decades of conflict. A formal peace treaty was initiated by the Foreign Ministers of the two countries in that meeting, but it has not yet been signed by the leaders and confirmed by the Parliament of the countries.