ArmInfo. Manvel Grigoryan's lawyers appealed against the measure of restraint in the form of arrest against their client in the Court of Cassation.
As Manvel Grigoryan's lawyer Arsen Mkrtchyan stated, they repeatedly - both in the court of first instance and in the Court of Appeal stated that Manvel Grigoryan's life is in danger, but the courts made an illegal decision. According to him, Manvel Grigoryan has oncology, diabetes, a number of concomitant diseases. The defense of Grigoryan has not yet received a notification that the complaint has been accepted.
Besides, yesterday in the conversation with Radio Azatutyun, the lawyer of the arrested general Arsen Mkrtchyan stated that Grigoryan will respond to the statements by the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan that in 2008 the then deputy defense ministers Manvel Grigoryan and Gagik Melkonyan attempted to involve the army in politics. According to him, his client, of course, was not happy with Kocharyan's arrest, but the statements of the former president, according to Manvel Grigoryan, are, to put it mildly, not nice. "As a representative of the defense, I will say that such statements will not remain unanswered. It's not beautiful. We will give their assessment a little later if we have to do this, "said the lawyer.
Robert Kocharyan, who is currently under arrest on charges of overthrowing the constitutional order on March 1, 2008, said earlier that he had held meetings with the military leadership on this issue before March 1, 2008. "You remember exactly ... when they announced that Manvel," Yerkrapah " union would soon join [the protesters on March 1, 2008] and so on. The whole point of this meeting was the following: the army has no right to get involved in political processes. Several of our generals: Manvel, who was Deputy Defense Minister, as a member of the Yerkrapah Council, for two days, day and night, discussed whether Yerkrapah should join the protesters or not. This was an unacceptable phenomenon, and I simply demanded that the Minister of Defense take measures to keep the army from being drawn into political processes, "Kocharyan said in his last television interview.
To recall on June 16, MP of parliament from RPA, General Manvel Grigoryan was detained by the National Security Service of Armenia. During the searches, the NSS officials found and seized a large number of weapons and ammunition, in addition to that, a large arsenal of unregistered weapons, up to mortars, and rations for soldiers collected by schoolchildren was found in the mansion and at the country house. On June 19, the Yerevan Court of First Instance adopted a decision on applying restraint measures in the form of arrest for a period of 2 months against the NA MP, General Manvel Grigoryan.