Yerevan court to hear appeal against Kajaran head’s arrest on Monday

The Yerevan Court of Appeals will hear an appeal against the arrest of Kajaran community head Manvel Paramazyan on Monday.

The court hearing is set to start at 3pm. The appeal has been assigned to judge Armen Danielyan.

Manvel Paramazyan was arrested for 2 months on July 10.

He has been charged with fraud (Article 38-178, Part 3), bribery (Article 311, Part 4) and obstruction of the free expression of the will of voters (Article 154.2, Part 2) of Armenia’s Criminal Code.

Paramazyan denies any wrongdoing, calling the charges against him “political persecution”, according to his lawyer Lusine Sahakyan.