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Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork-Marash Administrative Districts has sufficed the motion of detention for two months as a pretrial measure against the Founding Parliament member Alek Yenigomshyan, lawyer Nikolay Baghdasaryan told Panorama.am, adding Yenigomshyan will be moved to “Armavir” penitentiary institution.

“The court sufficed the detention for two months as a pretrial measure against Yenigomshyan. I am going to appeal the decision and raise my disagreement,” Baghdasaryan said, expressing regret over the poor judicial system of Armenia, where “judges are unable to exercise freely their powers.”

Baghdasaryan informed that the Jude demanded Yenigomshyan to stand while speaking, notwithstanding the fact the latter is blind and has certain difficulties with that regard. Baghdasaryan named the court decision nothing else but revenge.

To remind, Yenigomshyan was detained in the scope of the criminal case initiated on the seizure of the patrol police regiment in Yerevan on July 17. The National Security Service has informed that considering Yenigomshyan’s disability Braille specialist was invited to ensure Yenigomshyan’s exercising his rights and participating in the judicial-legal proceedings, yet Nikolay Baghdasaryan earlier told proper conditions were never ensured for keeping Alek Yenigomshyan in custody.