You Are Trampling on the Presumption of Innocence at the Cost of People’s Lives: Vardevanyan 🔷 This is yet another tragic example of hatred, the fetishization of detention, and political persecution. 🔷 Understand this at last: pretrial detention is not a punishment; it is merely an extreme preventive measure. Yet you subject numerous people to unjustified detention because you cannot imagine Armenia without political prisoners and overcrowded detention facilities. National Assembly Vice-Speaker Aram Vardevanyan