Levon Kocharyan to be released by virtue of law, lawyers say
Former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan’s younger son, Levon Kocharyan, will be set free by virtue of law after becoming an MP, his legal team said in a statement.
He was arrested during anti-government protests in Yerevan in September. The man was seriously injured by police officers and taken to hospital. Later, he was charged with beating four police officers at the rally.
Levon Kocharyan, who ran for parliament on the opposition Hayastan bloc's ticket in 2021, is set to fill a vacant parliament seat by a decision of Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) on Monday.
His lawyers, Erik Aleksanyan, Aram Vardevanyan and Alexander Kochubaev, said they had partially withdrawn their special review appeal concerning his arrest.