The Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction is set to hear the appeal to change Armenia’s ex-president Robert Kocharyan’s pre-trial detention measure on January 9. Kocharyan’s defense team filed the motion to the court to release the ex-president on bail in December. On December 28, the court delayed the hearing of the appeal following one of the prosecutor’s argument that the working day was over.

As Panorama.am learn from Hayk Alumyan, one of the lawyers of the ex-president, Kocharyan will not be present at tomorrow’s hearing.

To remind, Robert Kocharyan was arrested in July on charges of overthrowing Armenia’s constitutional order during the March 1-2, 2008 post-election events. On December 7, Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld the first instance court’s ruling to arrest Robert Kocharyan currently held in custody.

The ex-president and his lawyers strongly deny the charges as ‘politically motivated’ and are set to file lawsuit with ECHR.