YEREVAN. – It’s already a year that no court has been formed to hear the matter on the arrest of the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan. Gagik Baghdasaryan, one of Kocharyan’s supporters, on Monday told this to reporters during Kocharyan supporter’s demonstration outside the building of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).

“We ask and urge the chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council to come down to us,” Baghdasaryan added, in particular. “We will try to hear the answers to the questions that concern us.”

But the supporters of the second President were told at the SJC that its chairman Ruben Vardazaryan could not come down to speak with them, since a consultation was currently underway.

“The judicial system in the Republic of Armenia is paralyzed,” Gagik Baghdasaryan said, furthermore. “And the situation that exists in the Republic of Armenia is abnormal.”

On March 1 and 2, 2008 the then authorities of Armenia used force against the opposition members who were rallying in downtown capital city 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.

Second President Robert Kocharyan is charged with overthrowing the constitutional order in Armenia in connection with the aforesaid events, and taking a particularly large bribe.

The Criminal Court of Appeal overturned the first instance court’s decision on releasing Kocharyan from custody, and it ruled that he be remanded in custody yet again.