Court of Cassation rejects to take into examination application of Kocharyan’s lawyers

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 25, ARMENPRESS. The Court of Cassation of Armenia rejected to take into examination the application of Robert Kocharyan’s lawyers, lawyer Aram Orbelyan told ARMENPRESS.

“We have not received the decisions yet”, Orbelyan said, adding they will comment when they get acquainted with the decisions.

The lawyers asked the Court of Cassationto suspend the decision of the Court of Appeal of June 25, 2019 and give force to the decision of the Court of 1st instance of May 18, 2019, by which Robert Kocharyan’s preventive measure would be suspended and he would be set free.

Kocharyan, along with several other former officials, is charged with “overthrowing Constitutional Order” during the 2008 March protests in Yerevan when 8 protesters and 2 security officers died. The former President is accused of unlawfully ordering the military to intervene. He is also charged with bribery.

He vehemently denies wrongdoing.

Edited and translated by Tigran Sirekanyan