The Court of Appeal of Armenia is considering Monday the appeal of lawyer Hakob Martirosyan and opposition MP Artsvik Minasyan of the decision of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan not to open a criminal case against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

In June 2021, Martirosyan and Minasyan had submitted a report on a crime, in particular, demanding that a criminal case be filed against Pashinyan—and under the Criminal Code article on "high treason” in connection with the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war in the fall of 2020. 

Sessions in this court case are regularly rescheduled for various reasons. This had angered the families of the Armenian soldiers who had fallen in the aforesaid war, and therefore after the adjournment of the hearing on May 17, they had closed off the street adjacent to the Court of Appeal, and demanded that their appeal be considered objectively and that a proper procedure be given to it.