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Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction rejected the petition on Tuesday  to recuse the presiding judge Anna Danibekyan from the hearing of the case involving former  President Robert Kocharyan and three other former senior officials. The decision was announced by Judge Danibekyan herself, who added athe ruling was not subject to appeal.

To remind, earlier one of Kocharyan’s lawyers Hovhannes Khudoyan petitioned the presiding judge as well as prosecutor Petros Petrosyan to recuse themselves from the trial.

Khudoyan argued that the rulings issued by the judge during the past few hearings, as well as certain information made available to defense lawyers served as a basis for the motion, asking the judge to grant it.

“Taking into consideration the periodic bias of the court, which is manifested by the successive denial of bail as a measure of restraint, as well as substantiation of those rejections by controversial legal norms, we are filing a self-withdrawal motion,” he said.

Another lawyer of Kocharyan Hayk Alumyan and the ex-president himself also joined the motion.