ArmInfo. A group of MPs from Artsakh submitted to the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia a petition for changing the measure of restraint of the second president of Armenia, the first president of Nagorno Karabakh, the hero of the Artsakh war Robert Kocharyan, who was arrested related to the case on March 1, 2008 charged for overthrowing the constitutional order. As the Spokesperson of the Artsakh parliament Anush Khavalyan reports, the MPs in particular ask to change the arrest of Kocharyan to any other preventive measure not related to the deprivation of freedom, taking into account his merits to Armenia and Artsakh.
Earlier, 46 MPs of the Armenian parliament collected signitures undertaking for Kocharyan, demanding from the investigative body to change his arrest for freedom under bail. The speaker and two deputy speakers of the parliament from the Republican Party, the majority of the RPA faction, the former head of the Control Chamber, the MP from the Tsarukyan bloc Ishkhan Zakaryan and the three parliamentarians from the ARF Dashnaktsutyun party - Ruzanna Arakelyan, Romik Manukyan and Armenuhi Kyureghyan are among these 46 MPs.