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Police looked for weapons in the house of "New Armenia' member

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Police in Yerevan conducted a search in the house of Gagik Yeghiazaryan, a member of the New Armenia Public Salvation Front. “They were looking for weapons, ammunition, maps and schemes. They had a warrant to search the house and were looking for evidence for the case filed after the May 20 accident,” the activist said. “Similar searches were conducted in my aunt’s house and in a workshop that stands idle. But they did not find anything. I wonder Jirayr Sefilyan has more than 1000 friends and supporters. Are they going to search their homes, too?” Gagik Yeghiazryan said. Today, he was summoned for questioning by the Special Investigation Service. At the same time, the New Armenia opposition movement issued a statement saying that searches are being conducted at the homes of their supporters. “Seeing that they cannot substantiate the illegal detention of Jirayr Sefilyan and the trumped-up charges against him, the regime is trying to intimidate his supporters and friends through legal violence, thereby keeping others away from further struggle,” the New Armenia said in the statement. Jirayr Sefilyan was detained on June 20 and was officially charged with Article 235.2 of Armenia’s Criminal Code: illegal procurement, transportation or carrying of weapons, ammunition, explosives or explosive devices. In a statement released on June 22, Armenia’s Investigative Committee (IC) said that adequate evidence had been collected proving that Sefilyan had organized the procurement of arms and armament by a group of individuals and that the items had been stored in various locations. Sefilyan kept in touch with the group members and instructed them to keep the aforesaid arms and armament or transport them upon his order.