Yerevan court to hear Kocharyan’s appeal today
The Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals, under presiding judge Mnatsakan Harutyunyan, is set to hear the appeal of second President Robert Kocharyan against the ruling of a lower court on Tuesday, at 12pm, his attorneys said.
Earlier on January 18, the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction approved the motion filed by the Special Investigative Service to extend the ex-president’s pre-trial arrest for two months and rejected his lawyers’ petition to release Kocharyan on bail.
The former president’s defense team appealed the ruling to the higher court.
Kocharyan has been placed in custody since December 7, 2018, pending trial. He is charged with overthrowing Armenia’s constitutional order during the March 1-2, 2008 post-election events in Yerevan. Kocharyan and his lawyers strongly deny the charges as ‘politically motivated’.