Opposition figure Galstyan has been arrested in Armenia for two months.

An Armenian court has ordered pretrial detention for Khachik Galstyan, secretary of the Hayrenik party. The Anti-Corruption Committee reported the arrest of eight individuals in connection with vote-buying cases in the Armavir region.

As reported by the Caucasian Knot, Anti-Corruption Committee officers detained Khachik Galstyan, secretary of the opposition Hayrenik (Motherland, also referred to in Russian-language media as "Fatherland" and "Otchizna") party, after searches. Party leader Artur Vanetsyan called Galstyan's detention "yet another political persecution."

The court ordered Khachik Galstyan's detention for two months, News.am reports, citing his lawyer, Sos Hakobyan.

Earlier, on December 29, Aram Kocharyan, the representative of the Hayrenik party in Ashtarak and the second number on the proportional list for the Vagharshapat Council of Elders elections, was also detained, the publication writes.

Anti-Corruption Committee officers detained eight people in connection with a criminal case involving Hayrenik party representatives paying electoral bribes to vote in their favor in the Vagharshapat community Council of Elders elections held on November 16, the agency reported.

"Eight people, including the former deputy, were also detained recently for receiving electoral bribes by residents of the same community. "The governor of the Armavir region," Novosti-Armenia reports.

The Anti-Corruption Committee noted that arrest has been chosen as a preventive measure for one of the detainees, while house arrest has been imposed on three others, the agency writes.

On December 15, activists of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun held a protest outside the EU office in Yerevan, demanding that the EU officially record the presence of political prisoners in Armenia. There are no political prisoners in the country, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated on December 28.

In June 2025, a series of arrests of political opponents of the current government took place in Armenia. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused the opposition of plotting a coup, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "The Main Thing About Political Arrests in Armenia in 2025".