The Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction, presided over by judge Anna Danibekyan, resumed on Tuesday the hearing in the case of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan and three other former top officials. The prosecutors are not in attendance of the hearing.
During the hearing, the lawyer of the elder son of the former president Sedrak Kocharyan petitioned the court to lift the ban on his property. Judge Anna Danibekyan said that Sedrak Kocharyan is not party to the court proceeding, and suggested to move to the other side of the courtroom.
The judge next informed that the Court will ni=otidy about the status of the petition, once it considers the case.
To note, the hearing came after the Friday ruling of the Constitutional Court of Armenia that declared the Article 300.1 of the Criminal Court as unconstitutional and contrary to the Articles 78 and 79 of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia.
The ruling concerned the “overthrowing the constitutional order”, under which former President Robert Kocharyan and three other former senior officials are being prosecuted. Following the ruling, Kocharyan lawyers announced that the Court should suspend the criminal prosecution against the former president.
