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The lawyers representing Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan in the criminal case over the March 2008 post-election events, have applied to the Constitutional Court.

The main matter of their dispute is the legislative regulation which relates to the authority of ensuring the uniform application of the law and other normative legal acts by the Court of Cassation.

Meantime, the defense team is also discussing the issue of applying to the Constitutional Court for several other issues.

A Yerevan general jurisdiction court is set today to hear the appeal filed by the ex-president’s lawyers to release him from renewed pre-trial arrest on bail.

On December 28, the court delayed the hearing of the appeal following one of the prosecutor’s argument that the working day was over.

Kocharyan was arrested in July on charges of overthrowing Armenia’s constitutional order during the March 1-2, 2008 post-election events. On December 7, Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld the first instance court’s ruling to arrest the former president currently held in custody.

Kocharyan and his lawyers strongly deny the charges as ‘politically motivated’ and are set to lodge an appeal with ECHR.