ArmInfo. A Special Investigative Service in the building of the Constitutional Court interrogates the chairman of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan.
According to the lawyer of Tovmasyan, Amram Makinyan, Tovmasyan is interrogated in as a witness, however, in the framework he does not know on what case.
To note, amid interrogation political figures and lawyers have gathered in the courtyard of the Constitutional Court. The representative of the Legal Way public organization Ruben Melikyan, in an interview with reporters, said that according to his information, Hrayr Tovmasyan was charged.
"I can't say under what article. Pressing charges against the Chairman of the Constitutional Court after such a burdened law on the principle of voluntariness, if someone believes that all these processes are not causally connected, it is difficult to consider this approach, which has the right to exist, to be logical>, - he said, calling the process involving the figure of the head of the Constitutional Court political persecution.
Later it was reported that the SIS supplemented the accusation against the godson of Hrayr Tovmasyan, Norayr Panosyan, with one more episode, and with this justification again filed a petition for the arrest of Panosyan. To recall, yesterday, December 26, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian signed a package of laws on introducing amendments to the Constitutional Law "On the Constitutional Court", on introducing amendments to the law on providing activities, services and social guarantees of officials>, implying early retirement of judges of the Constitutional Court.
Judge of the Constitutional Court of Armenia Arevik Petrosyan in an interview with reporters stated that she was not going to use the opportunity for early retirement. , she said.