ArmInfo. On July 18, the Constitutional Court, on the basis of a statement by the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan and the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, made a procedural decision on appealing to the European Court of Human Rights and the Venice Commission to receive an advisory opinion on determining the compliance of Article 300.1 of the Criminal Code with the RA Constitution. This is reported by the press service of the Constitutional Court.
The statement also notes that, before receiving the opinion of the ECHR and the Venice Commission, the proceedings on Robert Kocharyan's case in the Constitutional Court of Armenia will be suspended on the basis of clause 5 of part 1 of article 56 of the constitutional law "On the Constitutional Court".
To note, the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, is accused of overthrowing the Constitutional order in Armenia in 2008. At that time, the Armenian opposition headed 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, ten people were killed, and about 200 people were injured.
To recall, earlier Kocharyan's defense noted that the criminal prosecution against Kocharyan has no legal basis, since he cannot be charged under Article 300.1 of the RA Criminal Code in connection with the events of 2008, since this article was supplemented in 2009. Moreover, the corpus delicti provided for in Article 300.1 did not exist during the events of February-March 2008.