Pashinyan lashed out at his opponents during an election rally on September 11 in Yerevan
YEREVAN—Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday condemned the wiretapping of Armenia’s top security officers, a recording of whose phone conversation discussing the investigation into the March 1, 2008 post-election protests, was leaked on Tuesday on YouTube.
Pashinyan spoke twice on Tuesday about the wiretapping incident. The first was immediately following the release of the conversation, which was posted on YouTube. He later also addressed the matter during a city council election rally for the My Step Alliance in the Davitashen district of Yerevan.
During his Facebook Live post, Pashinyan said that Armenia’s NSS chief Artur Vanetsyan and the head of the SIS Sasun Khachatryan were wiretapped.
“In my initial assessment, either the SIS head or the NSS director was wiretapped. Who has done it? Why? For what purpose? Did they have the legal right to carry out wiretapping? When did it take place, what is the political purpose of this all? During the August 17 rally I announced that the March 1 case is generally uncovered, and that all murderers should face trial,â€
