Monday, August 13 2018 16:39

ArmInfo.The Armenian Criminal  Court of Appeal changed the measure of restraint against Robert  Kocharyan. Thus, the court granted the motion of the 2 nd RA  President to change the measure of restraint in the form of arrest,  even without applying the bail offered earlier by the defense.

As one of Kocharyan's lawyers, Ruben Sahakyan, stated in a  conversation with journalists, the Armenian 2 nd president was  released by the decision of the Court of Appeal, taking into account  his immunity. The main thesis of this provision in both the previous  and the current Constitution, states that the President of the  Republic is inviolable - the President of the Republic of Armenia  during his term of office and after that can not be prosecuted and  held accountable for actions arising from his status. In this  context, as the lawyer stated, the decision of the court of first  instance was unconstitutional. At the same time, according to  Sahakyan, Robert Kocharyan continues to remain in the status of the  accused.

To note a few days ago responding to the journalists' request to  comment on the charge brought against Armenia's second President  Robert Kocharyan, his detention and statements by his supporters  about political persecution against him, Armenian Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan stated that at this stage of legal processes, he  would refrain from commenting on this issue. "I think it's wrong at  the moment to give any comments on this topic, since any comment can  be considered, interpreted as interference, influence on the case,  but I believe that all of you and every citizen of Armenia have an  answer to this question, "Pashinyan said.  To recall, the second  president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan was imprisoned on July 28. He  is charged under art. 300.1 of the Armenian Criminal Code in  overthrowing the constitutional order in the framework of the  criminal case on dispersal of protest actions on March 1, 2008.  Kocharyan himself even before the arrest called the charges against  him a political persecution. According to him, this is a "vendetta"  under the slogan of love and solidarity of "velvet revolution."