Court of Appeal rejects Kocharyan’s defense team's petition

The Court of Appeal rejected the petition of the defense team of Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan to replace the judge examining the issue on changing the preventive measure against former president and applying arrest instead.

Kocharyan’s team submitted petition to the Court of Appeal requesting self-withdrawal by judge Mkhitaryan for being elected by draw which is not intended by the law.

Kocharyan’s attorney Hayk Alumyan described court's decision as “definitely illegal decision.”

The examination of the petition on changing second president's preventive measure will continue tomorrow, on November 29.

The attorney said they are going to submit a big number of petitions at tomorrow's session.

According to one of them, they are going to apply to the Constitutional Court to dispute the constitutionality of 2008 Criminal Code’s Article 300.

We consider this article not to correspond to the principles of legal certainty. This is why the same article has been amended in future,” Alumyan said.