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YEREVAN. – The Court of Cassation of Armenia has denied considering the appeal by the legal defender of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) ex-Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, who is a defendant in the criminal case into the events that occurred in capital city Yerevan, in March 2008.

Khachaturov’s attorney, Mihran Poghosyan told about the abovementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In the year past, the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction had reached the conclusion that Khachaturov can be remanded in custody, but, subsequently, it had ruled that he be released on bail.

Afterward, Yuri Khachaturov’s legal defender had filed an appeal of the court decision that his client can be remanded in custody.

In August 2018, however, the Criminal Court of Appeal had denied this appeal.

And fifteen days later, the lawyer had appealed this ruling to the Court of Cassation.

Former CSTO Secretary General and Armenia’s former Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Khachaturov has been charged in Armenia within the framework of the criminal case into the tragic events that transpired in capital city Yerevan on March 1 and 2, 2008—and under Article 300.1 Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code; that is, breaching Armenia’s constitutional order, in conspiracy with others.

On July 28, 2018, however, Khachaturov was released on bail; and on August 4, he returned to Moscow to his duties as CSTO Secretary General. But on November 2, Armenian authorities recalled him from the office of CSTO Secretary General.

On March 1 and 2, 2008 the then authorities of Armenia used force against the opposition members who were rallying in downtown Yerevan, and against the results of the presidential election on February 19, 2008. Eight demonstrators as well as two servicemen of the internal troops were killed in the clashes. But no one had been brought to account for these deaths, to this day.

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