ArmInfo.The Court of Appeal will make public the decision on the measure of restraint against the 2nd Armenian President Robert Kocharyan on February 7. Earlier, Kocharyan's lawyers filed a complaint against the extension of his arrest.
"The decision of the Court of Appeal will be announced on February 7 at 12.00," lawyer of ex-president Hayk Alumyan told reporters. According to him, the proceedings during the meeting were full-fledged, and all parties were given the opportunity to present their position.
Responding to a question about whether the third president of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, was questioned in the March 1, 2008 case, Alumyan replied that he was not aware of the information, but if he was questioned, the interrogation materials are not attached to the Kocharyan case. He stressed that within the framework of the investigation high-ranking officers were interrogated, and the relevant materials were attached to the Kocharyan case, but among them there are no results of interrogation of the arrested General Manvel Grigoryan, therefore Alumyan is not aware of whether Grigoryan was interrogated on March 1, 2008.
Robert Kocharyan is charged 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 last year, 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 "Kentron" penitentiary unit, where he was later arrested. The office of the second president of Armenia called the arrest a political vendetta. RPA, however, qualified it as pressure from the current government on political opponents.