YEREVAN. – The Court of Cassation did not consider the appeals related to the issue of the precautionary measure of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan. Hayk Alumyan, a lawyer of the former president, said this during a press conference on Wednesday.

Earlier, the Criminal Court of Appeal had released Kocharyan on a 2bn-dram bail, which is an unprecedented amount for Armenia.

The lawyer reminded that the attorneys, the Prosecutor General's Office, and the injured party had appealed this decision.

But as per Alumyan, according to the law, the injured party has no right to appeal a decision on the precautionary measure, and the Court of Cassation has already expressed its position on this issue.

Under to the Criminal Procedure Code, the prosecutor general and his deputies also do not have such powers, it is another thing that it was different in practice, and the Court of Cassation was almost always granting the request by the Prosecutor General's Office, the lawyer said.

According to him, the defense drew the Court of Cassation's attention to that circumstance, and it hopes that the court will find the strength to change this wrongly formed practice. "It is worrying that our appeal has not been accepted for proceedings yet," Alumyan added.