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Armenia –
The Yerevan Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected a prosecutor’s request to arrest opposition activist Velikhan Khlghatyan who was involved in a brawl in the city of Gyumri at anti-government protests in May.
Presiding judge Armen Danielyan upheld the lower court ruling on Tuesday, denying the motion for his arrest, lawyer Gayane Papoyan said in a post on social media.
Khlghatyan and six other young opposition activists are accused of assaulting four elderly men, aged between 74 and 84 years old, during a motorcade rally in Gyumri on May 8.
Two of them have been remanded in pre-trial custody.