Court orders one-month detention of Robert Kocharyan's son

A first instance court in Yerevan on Monday approved a request of investigators to detain Levon Kocharyan, the son of Armenia's second President Robert Kocharyan, for one month, his lawyer Alexander Kochubayev said.

Levon Kocharyan was arrested during anti-government protests in Yerevan on Saturday and was later hospitalized with brain concussion.

The lawyer said that the policemen who tortured him filed a report that Kocharyan had beaten four riot police officers. He rejected the accusations as politically motivated.