YEREVAN. – An Armenian capital city Yerevan court granted the investigator’s motion to confine activist Dmitri Harutyunyan, and sentenced him to a two-month preliminary confinement.

The court also considered impermissible his attorney’s motion to release him on bail.          

To note, the lawyers had offered an apartment in Downtown Yerevan plus $30,000 to change Harutyunyan’s restraining order. 

“This is yet another illegal trial. We will appeal to the Court of Appeal. If we do not get justice there, too, we will appeal to the European Court,” Harutyunyan’s attorney Lusine Sahakyan stated.    

To note, 32-year-old military physician Dmitri Harutyunyan was detained on August 31 and later arrested. A criminal case is opened against the opposition Pre-Parliament movement member, and on charges of committing violence against a state representative.