Attorney asks SIS to allow CSTO’s Khachaturov to leave for Moscow
The attorney of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization’s (CSTO) Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, prosecuted over the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan, has submitted a request to the Special Investigative Service (SIS) to allow his client to leave for Moscow.
“We have asked for a permission for him to depart for his place of employment. We have received no reply as of now,” Mihran Poghosyan told Panorama.am.
Khachaturov is charged with overthrowing the constitutional order (Article 300.1, Criminal Code of Armenia) in 2008 in the scope of an investigation into the so-called March 1 events – the post-presidential election crackdown in 2008, which left eight civilians and two police officers dead. He was released from custody on bail on Friday.
Khachaturov served as the Chief of the Yerevan Garrison at a time of March 1, 2008, and on March 15 was appointed by then President Robert Kocharyan as Chief of General Staff of Armenia’s Armed Forces.