Political prisoner Narek Samsonyan wrote an article from "Armavir" Penitentiary, which we present in full below: "Good evening people who love us a lot and people who don't especially love us.
As you already know, Vazgen and I are subjected to repeated political persecutions. Just this time the degree of absurdity of the "case" is ten times higher, and the scope of repression was not limited to us and reached the actual closure of the AntiFake.am site.
Yes, my dears, the ringleader of the group of hyenas, who have been making fiery speeches about the closing of the "A1+" channel, actually suspended AntiFake.am's activity yesterday, confiscating all the equipment, including speakers, tripods and cameras. S:
It is a new place of suppression of the freedom of speech and press by the Nikolaian hyena group, which will surely be included in the volumes of criminal cases of the hyena group in the future.
I would like to touch briefly on the "crime" attributed to me. I'm accused of making a hooligan by using the word "butt". Investigator Gor Davtyan considered the word "butt" to be part of the crime of hooliganism, and today I am in the "Armavir" prison just for that word. I am telling this little episode so that you can imagine the small-mindedness of the swindler who publicly called us "puppies" and received a public response the next day, and being held hostage by RA investigative bodies in their hands with continuous acts of belittling professional self-esteem. Anyway, both the moral and political character of Alain Simonyan does not change with this episode, it is only added to it to an episode that is a scale lower than what has been done. In addition to detaining Vazgen and me and depriving AntiFake.am of its equipment, the group of hyenas arrested my teammates, in this case, the fighting brothers, journalist Davit Fidanyan and my assistant and operator Ishkhan Khosrovyan. Ishkhan Khosrovyan is currently free. I'm sure the guys consider it a great honor to be repressed by this bunch of hyenas and don't need any words of belt-tightening, but I want to wish David's family members strength and courage and express my and our team's unequivocal support to them. I am sure that their arrests are aimed at hindering our media activity, which we will not allow. I am also grateful to the lawyers who took over the defense of David and Ishkhan, Varazdat Harutyunyan and Carlos Avagyan.
I would also like to thank our team and all the individuals and organizations that have supported us over the past two days, especially Samvel Tadevosyan, who bought the necessary technical means to continue the operation of AntiFake.am with his own funds. To our other sponsors, I am extremely grateful for all of your support and willingness, and I am sure that you will now support/sponsor our team even more enthusiastically.
I would also like to thank our team and all the individuals and organizations that have supported us over the past two days, especially Samvel Tadevosyan, who bought the necessary technical means to continue the operation of AntiFake.am with his own funds. To our other sponsors, I am extremely grateful for all of your support and willingness, and I am sure that you will now support/sponsor our team even more enthusiastically.
P.S. I was informed that ArmComedy's Sunday broadcast has not been officially canceled yet. Let me remind you that the guest of the ArmComedy guys on Sunday is Alain Simonyan, on the basis of whose false fingerprint AntiFake.am journalists were arrested, we were detained for two months, and AntiFake.am was closed. After all this, I will have to consider giving Allen Simonyan airtime as a justification for what happened to us and the actions of that crook. I hope that our partners will take into account these obvious realities and not pollute their airwaves by providing rogue airwaves that swear at people and then arrest and block the media after receiving a response.
Narek Samsonyan, "Armavir" Prison
