Armenia’s former PMs to provide personal guarantees in court for ex-president Kocharyan

Panorama, Armenia

Feb 24 2020

Former Prime Ministers of Armenia Vazgen Manukyan, Khosrov Harutyunyan, Karen Karapetyan as well as former PM of Artsakh Republic Anushavan Danielyan plan to submit personal guarantees in court to change the detention measure for Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan currently held in custody.

As Kocharyan’s defense team reported in a press statement, the necessary documentation is currently being prepared by the lawyers to file the respective petition during the upcoming court hearing.

To remind, in 2018 similar petition was submitted by Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan and second President of Artsakh Arkady Ghukasyan who provided a public guarantee necessary for Kocharyan’s release from custody until the end of trial. The court under the presiding judge Davit Grigoryan heard the motion then and released Kocharyan from pre-trial custody.

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS