Tuesday, December 11 2018 18:31

ArmInfo. About 80-100  people responded to the call of the "Freedom to the President"  initiative group, gathering on the Republic Square in the evening of  December 11 and demanding the immediate release of the second  President of Armenia Robert Kocharian.

According to participants of the protest action, unprecedented  pressure was put on the courts of the republic, and if Robert  Kocharyan was not released, this would mean the absence of  independent courts in the country. Then the rally participants with  placards <Kocharyan - political prisoner> moved to the building of  the Prosecutor General's Office, where they continued the  action.Commenting on the small number of participants in the rally, a  member of the Republican Party Menua Harutyunyan noted that when  Nikol Pashinyan started his movement in Gyumri, he was supported by  only 10 people. "Today is only the first day," said Harutyunyan, who  was ranked 9th on the RPA list in the early parliamentary elections.

Recall that on December 7 the Court of Appeal upheld the first  instance verdict on the arrest of the 2nd President of the Republic  of Armenia Robert Kocharian. Without waiting for the transfer of the  verdict to the investigator, Robert Kocharyan himself appeared in the  "Kentron" penitentiary unit, where he was later arrested.The office  of the second president of Armenia called the arrest a political  vendetta. The RPA, however, qualified this as pre-election pressure  from the current government on political opponents.