Court of Appeals to resume hearing on ex-president Kocharyan on Feb 4
The Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals will resume the hearing on the appeal of sex-President Robert Kocharyan against the ruling of a lower court on February 4. As the prosecutor Vahagn Muradyan told reporters the defense team have completed filing of the appeal, and Robert Kocharyan has made a speech.
Muradyan reiterated the position of the investigators that the detention measure against the ex-president is lawful and well-grounded.
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 team of attorneys appealed this 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. The former president and his lawyers strongly deny the charges as ‘politically motivated’.