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    OPPOSITION MEMBERS ACCUSED OF PLOT TO SEIZE ARMENIAN TV CENTER

    Interfax News Agency
    Russia & CIS
    February 26, 2008
    Russia

    Armenia's National Security Service said on Tuesday that supporters
    of ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosian, defeated in what he claims was
    a rigged presidential election, had plotted to storm a television
    center and demand the possibility of a live televised address for
    Ter-Petrosian.

    "The Criminal Investigation Department of the National Security Service
    has instituted criminal proceedings under the Criminal Code Article
    'Usurpation of State Authority,'" the service told Interfax.

    The service said the alleged conspiracy had been revealed by a man
    who was arrested on Monday and had taken part in opposition rallies on
    Freedom Square in Yerevan where demands were raised for the annulment
    of the official results of the February 19 presidential election,
    according to which Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan won the poll.

    The service named the man who had been arrested as Karen Ter-
    Stepanian.

    "K. Ter-Stepanian gave evidence and said nine supporters of L. Ter-
    Petrosian were to organize a procession toward the television tower
    and the building of the Public Television and Radio Company. They
    planned to enter the territory of the building and demand a chance
    for Ter-Petrosian to go live on air," the service said.

    It said several people has been arrested as part of the case.
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