During last 5-6 years and especially since 2007 Parliamentary Elections Mr. Eghiazaryan was constantly and sharply criticizing Armenian authorities. After his critical article in a newspaper authorities attempted to neutralize him by initiating a legal persecution.

At the day of last presidential elections Mr. Eghiazaryan with another Levon Ter-Petrosyan Proxy, Mr. Erjanik Abgaryan, was assaulted and kidnapped by S. Sargsyan partisans while performing his duties as a Proxy.

Twice on February 26 and once on March 3 his apartment and weekend house were searched by Police. According to the official records of conducted searches “illegal items were not found.”

On February 26, after the search, at about 07:00 a.m. he was taken to the Abovyan City Police Department, were he was kept, without any explanations till 18:00 p.m., for 3.40 hours he was placed in a cell were the temperature was 5-10 C. Afterwards he was transferred in handcuffs to the NSS and later, at 21:30 was released, again without any explanations

On March 5 he was arrested, on the same day investigator involved him as a culprit and immediately requested the district Court for a sanction to place Eghiazaryan in pre-trial detention, which was given to him immediately.

During the all period of pre-trial detention Mr. Eghiazaryan has never been tried, no proves of his guilt were presented.

All motions of defence lawyers concerning the alteration of the restraint measure were rejected by the court without substantively grounded formal and legal reasons.  Mr. Eghiazaryan was released under written cognizance not to leave his place of residence only under the strong public pressure and due to  health reasons.