MP slams authorities over seized ARF T-shirt framed as terror evidence

Following the arrests of seven individuals affiliated with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) as part of a terror plot investigation on Thursday, Armenia’s Investigative Committee released photos of items seized during searches of ARF members’ homes.

The seized items included a T-shirt bearing the ARF’s well-known slogan “Liberty or Death”.

Hayastan faction MP and ARF member Kristine Vardanyan criticized law enforcement authorities for presenting the T-shirt as evidence of plotting a terrorist act.

“Can you imagine? They found a T-shirt with the ARF slogan ‘Liberty or Death’ and released its photo as irrefutable proof of a terror plot,” she wrote on Facebook.