The court in Yerevan arrested the ex-Minister of Education of Armenia Ashotyan

A court in Yerevan has arrested former Armenian Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan for one month. This was announced on June 5 by his lawyer Tigran Atanesyan.

"There is no reason for this, I cannot work with such a level of jurisprudence, this is not jurisprudence," the lawyer told Sputnik Armenia reporters outside the court on the Telegram channel.

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