Wednesday, July 17 2019 11:30

ArmInfo. Lawyers for the second  president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, filed a cassation appeal  against the decision to cancel the suspension of the criminal case  and send it to the Constitutional Court. This was reported by lawyers  of Robert Kocharyan. Prior to this, on July 11, lawyers filed a  cassation appeal to the Court of Cassation about the annulment of the  measure of restraint in the form of arrest.

The lawyers remind that on June 25 the Criminal Court of Appeal  chaired by Judge Armen Danielyan satisfied the appeal of the  prosecutor, the complainant and his representative Seda Safaryan, and  again chose the measure of restraint in the form of arrest against  Kocharyan. The judge also reversed the decision to suspend the  criminal case and appeal to the Constitutional Court. The court  decision canceled the personal guarantee of the former and current  presidents of Artsakh, chosen as a preventive measure against Robert  Kocharyan, and the decision was made on arrest.

On July 26, 2018, the Special Investigative Service charged Kocharyan  with the charge of overthrowing the constitutional order in a  criminal case on dispersing protest actions on March 1, 2008. The  former president is also charged with accepting bribes on a  particularly large scale. Kocharyan considers the charges fabricated  political persecution. 

In 2018, Kocharyan was arrested twice. In May, Kocharyan was released  on bail under the guarantees of the leaders of the unrecognized  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Later, the court suspended the Kocharyan  case, it was sent to the Constitutional Court.

The Armenian opposition, led by the first President Levon  Ter-Petrosyan, who ran for the presidential elections on February 19,  2008 and lost them to Serzh Sargsyan, then held rallies in the center  of Yerevan, expressing dissatisfaction with the official results of  the vote. The protests resulted in riots on March 1-2, killing ten  people, about 200 were injured.