Mr. Shant Harutyunyan is not the member of ANM or any other of opposition forces. He has not been involved in pre-electoral or electoral processes. Thus it is hardly to believe that he might be involved in any of incriminated crimes.

After the rigged elections, he, as the son of parents who were oppressed during Soviet time who has experienced personally all beauty of totalitarian regime and as the conscious citizen of Armenia, had no other choice than to join hundreds of thousands other citizens and raise his voice against authorities.

 He has attracted the attention of Armenian authorities only because on March 1 during the spontaneous rally at Myasnikyan Square he hold speech and tried  to console and calm the crowd.

During the all period of pre-trial detention Mr. Harutyunyan has never been tried