Armenian Special Investigative Committee initiates criminal case over orchestration of mass disorders
12.11.2020,
10:55
The Special Investigation Service of Armenia opened a criminal case under the article Mass Disorders. According to the press service of the department, high-ranking officials and other people organized and held meetings in a clear breach of the procedure established by law.

YEREVAN, November 12. /ARKA/. The Special Investigation Service of Armenia opened a criminal case under the article Mass Disorders. According to the press service of the department, high-ranking officials and other people organized and held meetings in a clear breach of the procedure established by law.
Earlier, the police and the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia reminded of the ban on meetings and rallies under the martial law declared in the republic on September 27.
The rally of 17 opposition parties was staged on Wednesday at Freedom Square in Yerevan, and then continued at the buildings of the government and the National Assembly. The purpose of the action is to achieve the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in protest against the agreement he signed on Artsakh, which provides for significant territorial concessions in favor of Azerbaijan. The police, for their part, said that rallies during martial law were prohibited by law and detained about 130 people.
About the Second Artsakh War
Since September 27, for 44 days, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, with the direct participation and support of Turkey, as well as the foreign mercenaries and terrorists recruited by it, carried out aggression along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, conducting artillery and rocket attacks, also against civilians and civilian infrastructures. Prohibited types of weapons were also used. The strikes were delivered, inter alia, at civil and military targets on the territory of Armenia.
The Azerbaijani side suffered massive losses in manpower (7,630 killed) and military equipment. During the hostilities, 784 units of various armored vehicles, 4 MLRS "Smerch", "Uragan", 6 TOS units, 264 UAVs, 16 helicopters, and 25 aircraft were destroyed. According to the official data of the Armenian side, during the repulsion of the enemy's aggression, more than 1,200 Armenian servicemen were killed and several hundred people were wounded. As a result of war crimes in Azerbaijan, 50 civilians were killed and 148 wounded. About 19,000 infrastructure units were damaged.
On November 9, the leaders of the Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Putin, Aliyev and Pashinyan, signed a statement according to which all hostilities in the zone of the Karabakh conflict were stopped on November 10. In particular, Azerbaijan and Armenia stop at their positions. A number of regions are returned to Azerbaijan, including the city of Shushi, as well as Aghdam, Kelbajar and Lachin regions, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia. A Russian peacekeeping contingent is deployed along the line of contact in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and surrounding areas. There is an exchange of prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead. --0---
Earlier, the police and the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia reminded of the ban on meetings and rallies under the martial law declared in the republic on September 27.
The rally of 17 opposition parties was staged on Wednesday at Freedom Square in Yerevan, and then continued at the buildings of the government and the National Assembly. The purpose of the action is to achieve the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in protest against the agreement he signed on Artsakh, which provides for significant territorial concessions in favor of Azerbaijan. The police, for their part, said that rallies during martial law were prohibited by law and detained about 130 people.
About the Second Artsakh War
Since September 27, for 44 days, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, with the direct participation and support of Turkey, as well as the foreign mercenaries and terrorists recruited by it, carried out aggression along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, conducting artillery and rocket attacks, also against civilians and civilian infrastructures. Prohibited types of weapons were also used. The strikes were delivered, inter alia, at civil and military targets on the territory of Armenia.
The Azerbaijani side suffered massive losses in manpower (7,630 killed) and military equipment. During the hostilities, 784 units of various armored vehicles, 4 MLRS "Smerch", "Uragan", 6 TOS units, 264 UAVs, 16 helicopters, and 25 aircraft were destroyed. According to the official data of the Armenian side, during the repulsion of the enemy's aggression, more than 1,200 Armenian servicemen were killed and several hundred people were wounded. As a result of war crimes in Azerbaijan, 50 civilians were killed and 148 wounded. About 19,000 infrastructure units were damaged.
On November 9, the leaders of the Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Putin, Aliyev and Pashinyan, signed a statement according to which all hostilities in the zone of the Karabakh conflict were stopped on November 10. In particular, Azerbaijan and Armenia stop at their positions. A number of regions are returned to Azerbaijan, including the city of Shushi, as well as Aghdam, Kelbajar and Lachin regions, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia. A Russian peacekeeping contingent is deployed along the line of contact in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and surrounding areas. There is an exchange of prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead. --0---