Blogger Badalyan and Sputnik journalist Gevorkyan detained in Armenia
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Radio Sputnik informs, that local unit columnist Ashot Gevorkyan and blogger Mika Badalyan were detained in Armenia. According to preliminary data, they are currently with the Investigative Committee.
The radio report said that Gevorkyan was heading to Syunik to work as part of his project “about life in the border areas.”
In turn, the head of Rossotrudnichestvo Evgeny Primakov said that Badalyan “was kidnapped by unknown masked people” near a hotel in Goris on the evening of September 6.
The press service of the Investigative Committee of Armenia informed Interfax a little later that Badalyan and Gevorkyan, as well as five other people, were detained in the Syunisk region on September 6 and 7. It is indicated that the reason was a case of illegal arms trafficking.
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