Constitutional Court likely to deliver verdict over Kocharyan’s arrest September 4

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 3, ARMENPRESS. The Constitutional Court will likely deliver its verdict about ex-President Robert Kocharyan’s application on September 4th.

Kocharyan, currently jailed in pre-trial detention on charges of “overthrowing constitutional order” in the 2008 Yerevan unrest case, argues in an application to the Constitutional Court that his re-arrest was unconstitutional. He has requested the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality of a court's overruling of a lower court's earlier decision on setting him free.

The Constitutional Court is examining the application since 11:00 September 3.

Chief of Staff of the Constitutional Court Edgar Ghazaryan told reporters they will issue an update at least an hour before the ruling is made.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan