Today the speaker of the Armenian parliament, Alen Simonyan, deleted his Facebook post about an attack on Ashot Pashinyan, the son of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. It is likely that he did this after Ashot Pashinyan's statement, published in the pro-government newspaper 'Aykakan Zhamanak', effectively denied the National Assembly Speaker's post on social media.

It should be noted that the day before, the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, Alen Simonyan, wrote on his Facebook page that the son of the Armenian Prime Minister, Ashot Pashinyan, had been attacked. "Three days ago the chairman of the Permanent Commission on State and Legal Affairs, Vladimir Vardanyan, was attacked and beaten by a deputy of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun party... In the centre of Yerevan, a Dashnak provoked the chairman of the National Assembly from a distance of about 100 metres, and yesterday the son of the Prime Minister was also attacked. This is a series of organized provocations, the traces of which I am sure will go beyond our borders. The legal and political response will not be long in coming. Armenia will remain and develop democracy, peace will prevail in our region," Simonyan wrote.

Prime Minister Pashinyan's son Ashot himself issued the following statement today: "There have been no political or other attacks against me. Unfortunately, I have to refute the false information that is being spread about me. As for the spreading of 'information', the most amazing thing is who is quoting whom. And why, I am not even interested. My best wishes to all".

It should be noted that Armenian opposition MPs had earlier accused Alen Simonyan of beating up a citizen who called him a traitor in the street.