YEREVAN. – The Yerevan court session on the criminal case against second President Robert Kocharyan and former deputy prime minister Armen Gevorgyan—who is now an MP of the opposition “Armenia” Faction in the National Assembly of Armenia—has resumed Tuesday.

The previous court hearing was rescheduled because a case of the coronavirus was reported in the family of the second president.

In the preceding session, presiding Judge Anna Danibekyan had denied the two motions of Gevorgyan's lawyers on the matter of his parliamentary immunity.

And earlier, the court had denied the motion to allow Gevorgyan to go abroad to attend the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). According to the judge, Gevorgyan could remotely attend this session. At the same time, the court had set the next hearing for January 25, the day of the aforesaid PACE session, thus depriving Armen Gevorgyan of the opportunity to even remotely attend in this session.