Bagrat Galstanyan's arrest has been extended.

A Yerevan court has extended the pretrial detention of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, who is accused of plotting to seize state power, for another three months.

As reported by the Caucasian Knot, on June 25, security forces conducted more than 90 searches in connection with the plot to seize power in Armenia. By court order, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, leader of the Sacred Struggle movement, and 14 other individuals were remanded in custody. A day earlier, on June 24, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced the prevention of a coup and published a document containing the text of the opposition's alleged plan to remove him from power. On August 21, the pretrial detention of Galstanyan and the other defendants in the "Sacred Struggle" case was extended by three months.

On November 13, Judge Karen Farkhoyan extended the pretrial detention of the Archbishops by three months, the News.am news agency reported.

A representative of the prosecutor's office insisted on extending Galstanyan's pretrial detention. Judge Farkhoyan, who granted his motion, had also extended the Archbishop's pretrial detention the previous time, in August, PanARMENIAN reports.

Lawyer Hovhannes Khudoyan stated that the charges are based on fabricated evidence. According to him, keeping the Archbishop in pretrial detention is "disrespectful to the law enforcement system and the Armenian justice system."

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that in mid-October, security forces detained Galstanyan's lawyer, Alexander Kochubayev, after a hearing in the case. The Investigative Committee cited a criminal case for the disclosure of defamatory information as the reason and announced that Kochubayev had been taken into custody.

In 2024, Bagrat Galstanyan led the "Tavush for the Motherland" movement (later renamed "Sacred Struggle"), whose members protested the transfer of border territories to Azerbaijan. More details on the case of Galstanyan and other political opponents of the current government are available in the "Caucasian Knot" report "The Main Thing About Political Arrests in Armenia in the Summer of 2025".