YEREVAN, August 10. /ARKA/. The court session where ex-president Robert Kocharyan lawyers’ motion was being considered will be continued on Friday at 14:00. 

The lawyers also said that Kocahryan has delivered a speech at the session.  

Aram Orbelyan, one of Kocharyan’s lawyers, said that was a closed-door session, they said, and some arguments were heard, but not all the parties had time to present their arguments, and therefore the continuation of the session was scheduled for the next day.   

He said a decision may come on Friday or on Monday and added that his expectations are positive.  

The Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office declined Wednesday the motion filed by some MPs wanting former president Robert Kocharyan to be released.

On July 28, Kocharyan was charged with toppling constitutional order in collusion with other persons and detained. 

The case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan was declared the winner, angering the opposition, led by the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and setting off 10 days of nonstop protests that led to a crackdown on March 1, in which 10 people were killed and more than 200 injured.

 Kocharyan will remain in detention pending trial. -0—