The Arrest of Manucharyan
On 13 May 1980, Alexander Manucharyan, a teacher of Art History at the Yerevan Teachers Training Institute, was arrested in the Armenian capital. He is charged with “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”. KGB Investigator Sukhiasov is conducting the case.
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The Case of Marzpet Arutyunyan
On 21 May 1980, a search was conducted in Yerevan, in connection with a case of the “circulation of slanderous materials”, at the home of Marzpet ARUTYUNYAN, brother of Shagen Arutyunyan (trial, CCE 48.6). Photographs of Zatikyan and Stepanyan (CCE 52.1) and several telephone numbers on pieces of paper were confiscated. M. Arutyunyan was detained, but several days later released — for Saturday and Sunday.
He was then arrested on a charge of selling narcotics (some hashish was taken out of his pocket at the time of the arrest, which according to relatives, had been planted by ‘agency’ officials.) A second search was made on 3 June, this time with the purpose of finding narcotics. Nothing was found. The trial took place in the summer. M. Arutyunyan was found guilty and sentenced to eight years.
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