News - We endure all this with a smirk, and it only hardens us. Narek Samsonyan, from Armavir Penitentiary Institution.

tert.am: The host of the program «Imnemnimi» Narek Samsyan wrote a letter from the Armavir pre-trial detention facility, stating that together with the other host of the same program, Vazgen Saghatelyan, they are subjected to ongoing political persecutions. "Vazgen and I are subjected to the next political persecutions. This time, however, the absurdity of the 'case' is tenfold higher, and the scale of repression has not stopped at us and has reached the de facto closure of the AntiFake.am site: Yes, dear ones, the leader of the bear group that had been delivering fiery speeches about shutting down the A1+ broadcast yesterday has actually halted AntiFake.am’s activities by seizing all the equipment, including loudspeakers, tripods, and cameras. This is a new stage in the repressions against freedom of speech and press by Nikol’s bear group, which in the future will surely be included in the bear group’s criminal files. I am being charged with committing hooliganism for using the word "hêtuyk" (butt). Investigator Gor Davtyan has treated the word as part of the hooliganism offense, and today I am in Armavir SIZO solely for that word. I tell this little episode so you can imagine the petty stupidity of the fool who publicly called us "son of a dog" and the next day received the public answer to it, as well as the ongoing acts by Armenian investigative bodies that humiliate the professional pride of these people, leaving us as hostages in their hands. Anyway, Alen Simonyan’s moral and political veneer does not change with this episode; it merely adds one rung lower to the ladder of what has already been done. In addition to detaining Vazgen and me and depriving AntiFake.am of equipment, the bear group has arrested my teammates, in this case fellow fighters — journalist David Fidanyan and my assistant, and at the same time operator Ishkhan Khosrovyan. Ishkhan Khosrovyan is currently at liberty. I am sure the guys consider it a great honor to be subjected to repression by this bear group, and they do not need words of encouragement, but I want to wish strength and resilience to David’s family and to express our unwavering support for them and for our team. I am sure their arrests are aimed at hindering our journalistic work, which we will not allow. I also thank the lawyers who have taken on the defense of David and Ishkhan — Varazdat Harutyunyan and Carlos Avagyan. I also want to thank our team over the past two days and all individuals and organizations supporting us; in particular, a special thanks to Samvel Tadevosi — who, with his own funds, has purchased the technical means necessary to continue AntiFake.am’s work. To our other sponsors — I am deeply grateful for all your support and willingness, and I am confident that you will now support/sponsor our team with even greater energy. About us and our families. I have no doubt you know that we carry all this with a smile and that we are only shaping our character and growing stronger from it. Our families are not afraid or broken by this either. I assure you that our people stand firmly by our side — from our parents to our wives and even young children. We all understand why we are subjected to these deprivations, and in the future history will tell the story of both us and our families, and of the bear group that represses us, as well as the investigators/prosecutors/judges. In any case, I know I will always look my children in the eyes with my head held high. I don’t know what they will tell their children about these days under this criminal-political absurdity, but I know what I will tell my children. Stay strong and keep fighting against the bear group’s acts of homeland-for-sale and treacherous actions; our generations should not lose their homeland. P.S. I learned that ArmComedy’s Sunday broadcast has not yet officially been canceled. Let me remind you that on Sunday ArmComedy’s guest is Alan Simonyan, whose false testament led to the arrest of AntiFake.am journalists; we’ve been jailed for two months, and AntiFake.am has been closed. After all this, I will have to consider giving Alan Simonyan air time as justifying what happened to us and the actions of that scoundrel. I hope our colleagues will take these evident facts into account and will not dirty their show by airing that scoundrel who curses people and then, after getting a response, shuts down the media." said Samsyan. Նոյյան տապան - Ի՞նչ է գրում մամուլը Կարդացել են