Mother Armenia: The name of the judge who will hear Andranik Tevanyan`s case has been announced.

ArmInfo. The name of the judge hearing the criminal case against Mother Armenia party leader Andranik Tevanyan and board member Aregnaz Manukyan has been revealed.

According to the Mother Armenia party's press service, the criminal case has been assigned to Yerevan Criminal Court Judge John Hayrapetyan. "The criminal case against Andranik Tevanyan and Aregnaz Manukyan has been assigned to Yerevan Criminal Court Judge John Hayrapetyan. This information has become available in the Datalex judicial information system," the party noted.

The political party also reported that there is currently no information regarding the acceptance of a criminal case.

As a reminder, on May 21, the Investigative Committee (IC) of Armenia announced the initiation of a criminal case against Andranik Tevanyan for "treason and espionage." Tevanyan is accused of transferring information containing state secrets to a foreign state for $622,000. On the night of May 24, Tevanyan was placed under two-month pre-trial detention by a court decision. Moreover, according to Tevanyan's lawyer, Aram Orbelyan, there were no legal grounds for his client's pre-trial detention at the time. Let us add that the oppositionist was detained on the direct orders of the current Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan. Tevanyan himself called the investigation's claims absurd, noting that he resigned from his parliamentary mandate back in 2023 and, therefore, such claims by the Investigative Committee are groundless. And on July 9, Aregnaz Manukyan, a member of the political council of the Mother Armenia party and former member of the Armenian parliament, was detained and then placed under two-month arrest. According to the Investigative Committee, a public criminal prosecution has been instituted against Aregnaz Manukyan under Part 1 of Article 427 of the Criminal Code (disclosure of information containing a state secret). The investigative actions were carried out as part of a criminal case on espionage and treason, in which the leader of the Mother Armenia party was previously arrested. Andranik Tevanyan. Manukyan is suspected of passing classified information regarding the Armenian Armed Forces to Tevanyan, which was presented at a closed meeting in parliament.

On August 18, the investigation into the case was completed, and the materials were sent to court, but both Tevanyan and Manukyan remain in pretrial detention.