Author: Free Nareg

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On December 9, 2011, Nareg Hartounian, founder of Naregatsi Art Institute and director of GH Storage Enterprises LTD, was detained and put under custody on charges of tax evasion upon a verdict of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Districts of Yerevan, Armenia. Nareg Hartounian was detained together with his colleagues Ani Mnatsakanyan, deputy director of GH Storage Enterprises LTD, and Artur Galstyan, accountant of GH Storage Enterprises LTD. The arrest took place without substantial evidence and with severe violations of the RA Criminal Code; a fact that spurred a furious wave of public protest and…