ArmInfo. The next court hearing in the case of the arrested leader of the Mother Armenia party, Andranik Tevanyan, and board member of the political party, Aregnaz Manukyan, will again be held behind closed doors. Lawyer Hovhannes Khudoyan announced this in a conversation with reporters on September 18.
According to him, the hearing is scheduled for September 22. "Preliminary court hearings concluded today. This is the stage where various issues are discussed. For example, the volume of evidence and preventive measures are discussed. The next court hearing will be held on September 22. The judge decided to hold it behind closed doors," the lawyer noted.
During the next hearing, Khudoyan explained, the parties will deliver opening statements. Furthermore, according to the lawyer, the issue of Aregnaz Manukyan's preventive measure will be discussed once again.
As a reminder, on May 21, the Investigative Committee (IC) of Armenia announced the opening 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 pretrial detention by court order. Moreover, according to Tevanyan's lawyer, Aram Orbelyan, there were no legal grounds for his client's pretrial detention at the time. It should be added that the opposition figure's detention occurred on the direct orders of current Armenian Prime Minister 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 already 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, Andranik Tevanyan, was previously arrested. 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. The trial against the Mother Armenia party representatives began on September 8. The hearings are being presided over by Judge John Hayrapetyan.
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