Lawyer Alexander Kochubaev committed to custody

ArmInfo. A Yerevan court, presided over by Judge Masis Melkonyanan, has committed Alexander Kochubaev, a prominent lawyer and head of the Contra Legem law firm, in custody for two months. This was reported by lawyer Roman  Yeritsyan.

Kochubaev was detained on October 16 by security forces as he left  the Shengavit Court, where a hearing was being held in the case of  Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan and 17 other individuals accused by the  authorities.

The pretext for the brutal detention, intended to exert psychological  pressure on the legal community supporting representatives of the  Armenian Apostolic Church, was his post on social media, in which he  made offensive remarks about the law enforcement system and the  Armenian authorities themselves.

"Investigators, prosecutors, and judges who have sold their souls to  the devil, your punishment will be from heaven. I pray to God that He  will not forgive you, and you will atone for your guilt for  generations to come," the lawyer shared his experiences 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 paycheck," he wrote.

The lawyer also added a couple of obscene expressions, but according  to his colleagues who commented on the incident, none of them fall  under the Criminal Code as a non-personal insult.

Apparently, these statements greatly offended his former colleagues,  as Kochubayev had worked in the police for a long time, and those who  are now ready to imprison the entire leadership of the Armenian  Apostolic Church for political reasons.