Free Armenia's Political Prisoners

Samvel Karapetyan

Philanthropist, benefactor of the Armenian Apostolic Church, prime minister candidate of Strong Armenia party

Detained: June 18, 2025

Current Status: House arrest

Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan

Primate of the Diocese of Tavush

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current Status: House arrest

Garo Okumushyan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current Status: House arrest

Lydia Mantashyan

Church worker

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current Status: Administrative supervision

Tigran Topalyan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current Status: Administrative supervision

Tigran Galstyan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current Status: Administrative supervision

Arsen Ghazaryan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current Status: Administrative supervision

Davit Galstyan

Member of Artsakh National Assembly

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision

Mihran Makhsudyan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision

Aghvan Arshakyan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current Status: Administrative supervision

Igor Sargsyan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current status: House arrest

Ara Rostomyan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision

Armen Aleksanyan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision

Movses Sharbatyan

Activist

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision

Deacon Hrayr Hakobyan

Detained: June 25, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision

Archbishop Mikayel Ajapahyan

Detained: June 27, 2025

Current status: House arrest (serving suspended 2 year prison sentence)

Vahagn Chakhalyan

Activist

Detained: July 5, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision

Artur Sargsyan

Member of parliament

Detained: July 9, 2025

Current status: House arrest

Andranik Chamichyan

ARF youth activist

Detained: July 11, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision, travel ban

Ruben Hakobyan

Former MP and political commentator

Detained: July 18, 2025

Current status: Travel ban

Arsen Ghukasyan

Uncle of missing soldier

Detained: October 7, 2025

Current Status: Travel ban

Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan

Primate of the Diocese of Aragatsotn

Detained: October 16, 2025

Current Status: Administrative supervision, travel ban

Rev. Fr. Garegin Arsenyan

Priest in the Diocese of Aragatsotn

Detained: October 16, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision, travel ban

Vardan Ghukasyan

Mayor of Gyumri

Detained: October 20, 2025

Current status: House arrest

Davit Hambardzumyan

Mayor of Masis (resigned due to detention)

Detained: October 28, 2025

Current status: House arrest (released from prison pending appeal)

Gevorg Nersisyan

Brother of Catholicos of All Armenians

Detained: 3 November 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision

Hambardzum Nersisyan

Nephew of the Catholicos

Detained: 3 November 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision

Vazgen Saghatelyan

Podcaster

Detained: November 13, 2025

Current status: House arrest

Narek Samsonyan

Podcaster

Detained: November 13, 2025

Current status: House arrest, gag order

Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan

Chancellor of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

Detained: December 5, 2025

Current status: Administrative supervision, banned from leaving Vagharshapat municipality

Ashot Minasyan

Sisian Squad commander, Syunik Diocsese chairman

Detained: December 23, 2025

Current status: Prison

Davit Minasyan

High school student

Detained: March 29, 2026

Current status: Released due to health reasons, under travel ban

His Holiness Karekin II

Catholicos of All Armenians

Current status: Travel ban (ordered lifted by Court of First Instance)

Archbishop Haigazun Najarian

Former Primate of Armenian Diocese of Australia and New Zealand

Current status: Travel ban

Archbishop Nathan Hovhannisian

Director of External Relations, Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

Current status: Travel ban

Bishop Vahan Hovhannesian

Supreme Spiritual Council, Director of Garegin I Educational Center

Current status: Travel ban

Bishop Moushegh Babayan

Supreme Spiritual Council, Chairman of Administrative and Economic Department

Current status: Travel ban

Bishop Makar Hakobyan

Supreme Spiritual Council, Primate of Diocese of Syunik

Current status: Travel ban

Bishop Hovnan Hakobyan

Supreme Spiritual Council, Primate of Diocese of Gougark

Current status: Travel ban

Rev. Fr. Movses Sahakyan

Director of Office of Ecclesiastical Structures

Current status: Travel ban

Artur Osipyan

Refugee from Artsakh who publicly confronted the prime minister during a campaign event

Detained: 18 May 2026

Current status: Administrative supervision

Andranik Tevanyan

Chairman of the Mother Armenia Party

Detained: 23 May 2026

Current status: Pre-trial detention

Avetik Chalabyan

Coordinator of the HayaQve National Civil Union

Detained: 24 June 2026

Current status: Pre-trial detention

Gagik Tsarukyan

Leader of Prosperous Armenia party, member of parliament

Detained: 6 July 2026

Current status: Pre-trial detention

Aregnaz Manukyan

Candidate for parliament, Mother Armenia party

Detained: 9 July 2026

Current status: Detained

Former President Robert Kocharyan

Head of Armenia Alliance, Second President of the Republic of Armenia, First President of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh)

Detained: August 25, 2026

Current status: Pre-trial detention

Sedrak Kocharyan

Son of former President Robert Kocharyan, brother of Armenian National Assembly member Levon Kocharyan

Detained: August 25, 2026

Current status: Pre-trial detention