Lawyers of Robert Kocharyan filed a petition in the SIS for the  termination of criminal prosecution against their client

ArmInfo. The defense of the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, submitted a petition to the SIS to stop the criminal prosecution against their client.  This is stated in a statement distributed by the lawyers of the former Armenian President.

The statement, in particular, notes: "Unlike the working style of the  Special Investigation Service, which provides one-sided and extremely  limited information that does not provide the public with an  opportunity to form a general picture of the situation in the case of  Robert Kocharyan, the defense will continue to notify the public  about the work done and that we intend to undertake in the near  future. That is, we will present the content of the submitted  petitions and complaints, as well as their progress, as far as the  secrecy of the preliminary We would like to inform that on January 9,  the defense of Robert Kocharyan sent a petition to the SIS to stop  the criminal prosecution against the second president of Armenia,  given that the article300.1 of the RA Criminal Code. "

To note, yesterday the judge on the case of changing the measure of  restraint in relation to Kocharyan took a rejection, and the meeting  was postponed indefinitely. 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.

On December 28, the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan  postponed consideration of the petition of the lawyers of former  President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan for release on bail to January  9, 2019. On January 8, in an interview with ArmInfo correspondent,  Alumyan also noted that the defense intends to appeal to the  Constitutional Court. "We believe that the laws, in the  interpretation in which they were applied to Robert Kocharyan, are  unconstitutional. In particular, this is about the repeal by the  Court of Cassation of the decision of the Court of Appeal to change  the preventive measure regarding Kocharyan and refer the case to the  Court of Appeal, Alumyan said.