Arsen Babayan

Former Deputy Chief of Staff of Armenia’s Parliament released from detention

On 12 November, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia announced that Arsen Babayan, former Deputy Chief of Staff of Armenia’s National Assembly who had been under arrest since 21 October for fraud and ‘colluding to usurp power’ has been released. Babayan’s indictment stems from a lawsuit brought by independent MP Arman Babajanyan to the General Prosecutor’s Office on 4 October.  In the lawsuit, still ongoing,  Babajanyan claims that embattled constitutional court chair Hrayr Tovmasya