Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan files defamation lawsuit against PM Pashinyan

Aysor, Armenia
April 8 2021

Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan has filed lawsuit against Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The lawsuit has been submitted on April 7 and ascribed to judge of Yerevan general jurisdiction court Artur Mkrtchyan.

Spokesperson of Kocharyan’s defense group Elina Sahakova told Aysor.am that the lawsuit relates to the expressions allowed by the PM during March 1, 2021 rally.

Sahakova said Armenia’s second president demands 4mln AMD compensation.

The lawyers demand that Pashinyan’s expressions be considered defamatory, refute them and recognize the president’s presumption of innocence.

At the rally Nikol Pashinyan stated that the core point in the revealed truth of March 1 case is that the authorities of 2008 brought the army against own people, used it not to allow _expression_ of will of the own people.