In the current situation, we have submitted an urgent motion to Prosecutor General of Armenia Artur Davtyan with the request to exercise discretionary power and lift arrest as a pre-trial measure. This is what Aram Vardevanyan, attorney of renowned Professor Armen Charchyan, wrote on his Facebook page.

“Despite the late hour, we need to inform that Professor Charchyan was transferred to the hospital via an ambulance truck before the court announced its embarrassing and unlawful decision. We don’t have additional information about the Professor’s health condition at this moment. We also inform that in the current situation, we have submitted an urgent motion to Prosecutor General of Armenia Artur Davtyan with the request to exercise discretionary power and lift arrest as a pre-trial measure. Let us remind that such a power is granted to the Prosecutor General’s Office for such cases in general, under criminal procedure law,” he wrote.