ARMENIA ARRESTS TWO ON AZERBAIJAN SPY CHARGES
According to armenialiberty.org, Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) said on Wednesday that it has arrested two persons, including a retired army officer, on charges of spying for Azerbaijan.
One of them was identified as retired Lieutenant-Colonel Gevorg Hayrapetian. "In 2007 he was demobilized from the Armenian Armed Forces for a blatant violation of military and disciplinary rules," the NSS said in a statement.
The statement added that Hayrapetian has already been charged with high treason for "cooperating with Azerbaijani special services." A corresponding article of Armenia's Criminal Code carries between 10 and 15 years' imprisonment.
According to the NSS, the other detainee is a "foreign national" who liaised between Hayrapetian and Azerbaijani intelligence. The security agency did not identify the suspect or give any details of the alleged espionage.
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- 1831 Birth of Harootyoon Svachyan in Constantinople. He published the "Meghoo" (Bee) periodical. He died in 1874.
- 1924 Alexander Spendiaryan (composer) arrives in Yerevan.
- 1926 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 5.7) occurs in Leninakan (Gyoomree). It covers some 45 sq. km. There is loss of life and buildings are destroyed.
- 1926 A powerful earthquake occurs in Leninakan (Gyumri).
- 1935 Death of cleric and ethno-musicologist Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonyan) in Paris (France). His remains were transferred to Yerevan in 1936.
- 1964 Tenth Union Congress of Physiologists in Yerevan.
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