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    Axis News
    Dec 14 2008


    Armenian opposition hardliner may again wind up security service after
    completing prison term



    Vartan Malkhasyan, a prominent Armenian nationalist activist, vowed to
    continue to fight for regime change in Armenia as he walked free last
    week after serving a two-year prison sentence resulting from the
    controversial coup charges brought against him by the Armenia's
    National Security Service.

    Armenian Service of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),
    reporting on Malkhasyan's release, notes that he and another prominent
    veteran of the war in Upper Karabakh, Zhirayr Sefilyan, were arrested
    in December 2006 just days after holding the founding congress of
    their Alliance of Armenian Volunteers (HKH), a pressure strongly
    opposed to any territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. Armenia's
    National Security Service claimed they planned to mount an armed
    uprising against the government ahead of the May 2007 parliamentary
    elections while both men denied the charges as politically motivated.

    Both Malkhasyan and Sefilyan have supported former President Levon
    Ter-Petrosyan's bid to return to power despite his well-known advocacy
    of a compromise solution to the Karabakh conflict. Also last week,
    Sefilyan joined several hundred people in marching to the
    Prosecutor-General's Office in Yerevan to demand the release of some
    70 Ter-Petrosyan supporters arrested by the security forces in the
    wake of the February presidential election, RFE/RL notes.
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