ArmInfo.The Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan, chaired by Judge Artur Mkrtchyan, retired to the deliberation room to decide on the case of changing the preventive measure against the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan.
The decision will be announced on January 18 at 17:30. To note, Kocharyan's lawyers submitted a petition to the court to change the preventive measure against the Second President of Armenia from arrest to not leave the place, in turn the Special Investigation Service sent a petition to extend Kocharyan's arrest. To recall, Robert Kocharyan is accused under Art. 300.1 of the Criminal Code of Armenia in overthrowing the constitutional system in the framework of the criminal case on the dispersal of protest actions on March 1, 2008. On December 7, the Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the first instance for the arrest of the 2nd President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. Without waiting for the transfer of the verdict to the investigator, Robert Kocharyan himself appeared in the "Yerevan 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.