Guys, You Are Not Even Laughable Anymore: Farmanyan

Samvel Farmanyan writes on his Facebook page: Guys, you are not even laughable anymore. You are just a shame. Incompetents in need of pardon.

Today, I visit the gym again. After working out, before swimming, I enter the steam room. There is no one there. Three or four minutes later, oddly enough, after checking both sides carefully, someone enters with the tension and caution of a person who has just committed a crime. He greets me. I reciprocate the greeting. After a minute, he introduces himself as an investigator from the special investigative service, apologizes, and says something to the effect of: 'Mr. Farmanyan, I respect you a lot. I know you from the university... I just ask you to be sure that there really is no way out for us. We are going to detain your sister again. You know everything much better than we do. Either we stay inside the system or hope that the next authorities will be honest enough to empathize with our situation and hold accountable the real culprits, not people like us...' Silence. And quickly he disappears into the steam of the steam room.

This is not an excerpt from a work of fiction or a film. This is not a human story of the inhumane repressions conducted by the Yezhov-Yagoda-Beriy triumvirate during Stalin's time. This is the reality of 21st-century Armenia, a reality during the Pashinyan era that aspires to the title of a 'global bastion of democracy.'

PS 1: Pass on to Hayk Marutyan that we will definitely meet...

PS 2: It goes without saying that neither I nor my sister will have any response regarding this circus in the upcoming days under the 'announced' developments. There will be no legal commentary or assessment from her lawyers either, as lawyers have no role in an environment where law and legal knowledge are dead. The question is purely political. I am the addressee of the question. I have accepted that challenge.