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Criminal proceedings against Tigran Urikhanyan, who made calls to seize power

On September 19, 2023, Tigran Khachaturi Urikhanyan published a video with the caption "I invite you to go to the street" on his "Facebook" social website, www.youtube.com website "Tigran Urikhanyan" and with the caption "Alliance Progressive Centrist Party" as the title image. , the study of which revealed that it contained public appeals aimed at seizing power and forcibly overthrowing the constitutional order.

Based on the above, with the special instructions of the RA Investigative Committee in the primary department, according to part 2 of Article 422 of the RA Criminal Code (public calls aimed at usurping power, violating territorial integrity, renouncing sovereignty, or forcibly overthrowing the constitutional order, which were made publicly displayed works or mass media) means or using information or communication technologies), criminal proceedings have been initiated, a preliminary investigation is being conducted.

There are other publications of similar content on social platforms, which are currently being investigated.

The RA Investigative Committee calls on the public to demonstrate law-abiding behavior, to refrain from illegal, state security, and constitutional order-directed actions, and from reaching for them to be resorted to.

Any apparent criminal behavior will be given a proportionate criminal assessment.