22:13, March 5, 2013
Vardan Setrakyan, a candidate who ran in the February 18 presidential election in Armenia, has just been arrested on suspicion of ordering the January 31 shooting of Paryur Hayrikian.
This latest development is being reported by shamshyan.com. The news outlet says the court is now reviewing a petition by Armenia's National Security Service to keep Setrakyan in pre-trial custody.
Hayrikian, who also was a presidential candidate, was shot outside his Yerevan home just before midnight that day. He was rushed to hospital with wounds to his right collarbone.
Hayrikian, who spent years in Soviet jails for his dissident views, believed that the shooting was the work of foreign intelligence agencies, in particular Russia.
Armenian News
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