YEREVAN. – The court hearing on the criminal case involving Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan and several other former senior officials, who are accused of overthrowing the constitutional order along the lines of the March 2008 case, has been set for September 12. Arman Khachatryan, Head of Department of Public Relations and Protocol of the Supreme Judicial Council, told about this to Armenian News-NEWS.am.
The case will be heard at a capital city Yerevan court of general jurisdiction.
On June 20, the Criminal Court of Appeal overturned the first-instance court ruling to suspend the proceedings of this case, and remitted it to a retrial.
The defendants in this criminal case are second President Robert Kocharyan, former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and former CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, and former Deputy Prime Minister and ex-Secretary of the National Security Council Armen Gevorgyan.
But solely Kocharyan is in custody along the lines of this case.
A signature bond to not leave Armenia has been selected as a pretrial measure for Ohanyan and Gevorgyan, whereas bail—for Khachaturov.
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.
