Renowned lawyer Alexander Kochubaev  detained in Armenia for  defending church officials

ArmInfo.Alexander Kochubaev, renowned lawyer and head of the Contra Legem law firm, has been detained in Yerevan. The lawyer was detained by security forces after leaving the Shengavit Court, where a hearing took place in the case of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan and 17 others accused by the authorities.

Law enforcement agencies have not released any information about his  detention. However, his colleagues believe that the reason for the  harsh arrest, intended to exert psychological pressure on the legal  community supporting representatives of the Armenian Apostolic  Church, could have been his posts on social media, where he made  uncensored remarks about the law enforcement system and the Armenian  authorities.  "Investigators, prosecutors, judges, who have sold  their souls to the devil, your punishment will be from heaven." "I  pray to God not to forgive you, and you will atone for your guilt for  generations," the lawyer shared his emotions after yet another  violent raid on representatives of the Armenian Apostolic Church. "I  was also an officer, and giving up my epaulettes was the hardest  decision of my life. But you can support a family through honest  work, not by swindling your salary," he wrote.

The lawyer also added a couple of obscene expressions, but according  to his colleagues expressing their opinion on the incident, none of  them qualifies as a non-personalized insult  under the Criminal Code.

Apparently, these statements have deeply offended his former  colleagues, as Kochubayev had a long history of working in the police  system, and those who are ready to imprison the entire leadership of  the Armenian Apostolic Church for political reasons.