Yerevan court to resume hearings on Kocharyan’s appeal today

The Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals, under presiding judge Mnatsakan Harutyunyan, will resume the hearings on the appeal of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan against the ruling of a lower court on Monday, at 12pm.

Earlier on January 18, the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction approved the motion filed by the Special Investigative Service to extend the ex-president’s pre-trial arrest for two months and rejected his lawyers’ petition to release Kocharyan on bail.

The former president’s team of attorneys appealed this ruling to the higher court.

Kocharyan has been placed in custody since December 7, 2018, pending trial. He is charged with overthrowing Armenia’s constitutional order during the March 1-2, 2008 post-election events in Yerevan.

The former president strongly denies the charges as ‘politically motivated’.