Yerevan appellate court to rule on Kocharyan’s measure of restraint today

The Yerevan Criminal Court of Appeals, under presiding judge Mnatsakan Harutyunyan, is set to deliver a ruling on second President Robert Kocharyan’s measure of restraint on Thursday, at 12pm.

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

The former president’s defense team appealed the 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, but strongly denies any wrongdoing.