Levon Kocharyan to take up parliament seat
Armenia’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) will grant a parliament seat to former President Robert Kocharyan’s younger son, Levon Kocharyan, who has been held in detention for around two months.
Kocharyan, who ran for parliament on the opposition Hayastan bloc's ticket in 2021, is set to take up the vacant MP seat after it was rejected by three other candidates on the electoral list, Migrdat Madatyan, Angela Nalbandyan and Gerasim Vardanyan.
“Consequently, Levon Kocharyan, who does not have an MP status and is illegally detained, cannot be kept in prison from the moment he takes up the parliament seat on November 6," his lawyers said in a statement.
Levon Kocharyan was arrested during anti-government protests in Yerevan in September. He was seriously injured by police officers and taken to hospital. Later, he was charged with beating four police officers at the rally.