Yerevan July 30
Tatevik Shagunyan. The arrest of the second RA President Robert Kocharyan has political motives and is connected with the change of power in Armenia. The director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan expressed this opinion at the press conference.
"It's not that an independent judge appeared and made such decisions," Iskandaryan said, stressing that the process around Kocharyan can be described as a selective application of the law: "That is, it is pursued within the law, but for political reasons," – explained the expert.
At the same time, he noted that the case of Kocharyan's arrest and criminal prosecution is unprecedented in the sense that before him, no Armenian leader had been prosecuted on the case. "Such cases were abroad, but all the presidents tried to escape justice while abroad, while Kocharian voluntarily returned and expressed his readiness to sit down, but fight to the end." In this regard, this situation is unprecedented," Iskandaryan summed up.
Kocharyan is being prosecuted on March 1, 2008. He is currently arrested, but does not admit his guilt, considers the case to be politically fabricated.