Vazgen Saghatelyan released under administrative supervision

ArmInfo. The preventive measure for Imnemnimi podcast co- host Vazgen Saghatelyan has been changed from house arrest to administrative supervision, as reported by Saghatelyan's lawyer, Arsen Babayan. "The court applied administrative supervision as a preventive measure, prohibiting  Vazgen from making public appearances," Babayan wrote on Facebook.

Recall, bloggers Narek Samsonyan and Vazgen Saghatelyan were arrested  on November 13, 2025, in Yerevan. On the same day, the office of the  AntiFake.am editorial office was searched, and all equipment was  confiscated. They were detained on the basis of a complaint from the  Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, Alen Simonyan, for allegedly  using obscene language. The investigation accuses them of  hooliganism.

Notably, this legal action followed an incident where Simonyan was  the first to insult the podcast hosts in a post on his Facebook page,  after which they responded to him. On January 9, the court extended  the detention of the Imnemnimi podcast hosts for another three  months, after which Narek Samsonyan declared an indefinite hunger  strike in protest of an unfair trial. A week after the hunger strike,  Samsonyan began experiencing health problems and was taken to the  Izmirlyan Medical Center. On March 24, the house arrest imposed on  political prisoner Narek Samsonyan was replaced by administrative  supervision with a ban on public speaking. Saghatelyan was  transferred to house arrest on April 2.