Lawyer on growing pressure on forcibly displaced Nagorno-Karabakh  Armenians prior to NA elections in Armenia 

ArmInfo. Lawyer Roman Yeritsyan warns of increased pressure on Artsakh residents ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for June 7 in Armenia.

Yeritsyan reported that law enforcement officers seized the phone of  former Artsakh President Samvel Shahramanyan. He noted that,  according to the Main Directorate of Military Investigations, the  events in question are related to the gas station explosion of  September 24, 2023, and the seized phone was manufactured in 2025.  Moreover, according to Yeritsyan, a notice to vacate a  60-square-meter official apartment allocated in 2008 was sent to  Felix Gabrielyan, former Military Commissar of Artsakh (1999- 2011),  former Head of the Combat Training Department of the Defense Army  (1993-1998), member of the Military Council of the RA Ministry of  Defense, former Minister of Environmental Protection of Artsakh  (2018-2023), Head of the National Defense Service of Artsakh  (2013-2018), Advisor to the President of Artsakh, who has served in  the military with the rank of colonel since 1998, Member of the first  convocation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh and a  prominent figure in the formation of the state, awarded the Combat  Cross of the first degree, who lost his brother and father in the  First Artsakh War, on the grounds that "the apartment was allocated  illegally."

"The apartment in question is the sole residence of Felix Gabrielyan  and his family members in the Republic of Armenia. A similar lawsuit  was also filed against former Artsakh Defense Minister Mikael  Arzumanyan, but an administrative court decision suspended the  administrative actions to evict him from the apartment, and the  lawsuit was subsequently upheld, as the eviction was deemed illegal.  In addition to the above, according to my information, hundreds of  similar lawsuits have been filed.

The factual basis for the violation was not stated in the notice, the  legal basis speaks of a completely different situation, and the  notice itself, consisting of only three sentences, contains dozens of  spelling and factual errors," Yeritsyan wrote on his Facebook page.

He added that the decision on the prosecutor's office's claim to  deprive the owner of the building of the representative office of the  Republic of Artsakh, located at 17/2 Nairi Zaryan Street, Yerevan,  was supposed to be published on May 22, 2026, but the decision has  not yet been published.