YEREVAN, AUGUST 8, ARMENPRESS. The Prosecutor General’s Office has rejected the motion of MPs on changing the precautionary measure selected against 2nd President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, the Prosecutor General’s Office told Armenpress.

“At the current stage of preliminary investigation, the grounds to remand Robert Kocharyan into custody are maintained and the selection of another precautionary measure not related to detention is still unable to guarantee the uninterrupted process of the investigation as a result of the proper conduct of the defendant”, Arevik Khachatryan, head of PR department at the Prosecutor General’s Office, said.

The Prosecutor General's Office also released the list of MPs who signed the petition:

1. Ara Babloyan
2. Arpine Hovhannisyan
3. Eduard Sharmazanov
4. V. Harutyunyan
5. Mihran Hakobyan
6. Karine Achemyan
7. Jemma Baghdasaryan
8. Knyaz Hasanov
9. Arsen Mikhaylov
10. Armen Ashotyan
11. Andranik Harutyunyan
12. Aram Harutyunyan
13. Harutyun Karapoghosyan
14. Ashot Arsenyan
15. Hakob Hakobyan
16. Karen Avagyan
17. Arayik Hovhannisyan
18. Vahram Baghdasaryan
19. Robert Sargsyan
20. Shushan Sardaryan
21. Hermine Naghdalyan
22. Margarit Yesayan
23. Artashes Geghamyan
24. Nairi Sahakyan
25. Gagik Melikyan
26. Rustam Makhmudyan
27. Arayik Grigoryan
28. Samvel Nikoyan
29. Shushan Petrosyan
30. Hayk Babukhanyan
31. Galust Sahakyan
32. Samvel Farmanyan
33. Khosrov Harutyunyan
34. Mihran Poghosyan
35. Ishkhan Zakaryan
36. Karen Bekaryan
37. Ruzanna Muradyan
38. Artur Gevorgyan
39. Koryun Nahapetyan
40. Tachat Vardapetyan
41. Karen Karapetyan
42. Avet Sargsyan
43. Armenuhi Kyureghyan
44. Romik Manukyan
45. Ruzanna Arakelyan

Robert Kocharyan has been charged on July 26 over the 2008 March 1 case, under the Article 300.1 part 1 of the Criminal Code for breaching the constitutional order of the Republic of Armenia. He has been remanded into custody.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan