TV Channel 5 owner Armen Tavadyan’s lawyer Hovhannes Khudoyan told reporters Friday they are going to turn to the Court of Appeal with a motion against his arrest.

"As you know, the legal system of Armenia promptly decides to arrest a person, but when it comes to appeal, everything is delayed," the lawyer said.

According to him, law enforcement agencies rely on video materials, but the defense did not see them.

As reported earlier, Armen Tavadyan was detained in connection with the case of Varuzhan Mkrtchyan, a supporter of Armenia's second President Robert Kocharyan. Mkrtchyan has been charged under the Criminal Code with bribing a witness or an injured party to give false testimony on a crime committed by a criminal group. According to police, Varuzhan Mkrtchyan had called one of the victims of the March 1, 2008 events to his office and proposed to this person to decline from the victim's status and the testimony given and not go to court hearings, saying he was ready to pay this person the money the state would provide as financial aid.