The defense team of former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan has filed 14 complaints with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Hayk Alumyan, one of Kocharyan’s lawyers told Ria Novosty news agency.

The defense team of Kocharyan who faces charges of overthrowing the constitutional order, demand to change the detention measure of their client. They had earlier filed motions to administrative and civil courts to free him from pre-trial detention amid the coronavirus pandemic. The lawyers pointed to the ex-president’s health condition and the fact that in his 60s the former is in high risk group to contract the virus.

“The defense team of Kocharyan has filed 14 complaints with ECHR, 10 of which have been registered for review,” Alumyan said.

The agency reminds that the ex-president has been placed in custody for about two years, pending trial. He is charged with overthrowing Armenia’s constitutional order during the March 1-2, 2008 post-election events in Yerevan, but strongly denies any wrongdoing. Kocharyan and his defense team strongly denies any wrongdoing and consider the charges as political persecution.