Court to continue examination of petition on prolonging Kocharyan’s arrest tomorrow

The court will continue examination of petition on prolonging arrest of Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan tomorrow, member of Kocharyan’s defense team Hayk Alumyan said after the court hearing today.

“Today the court started examination of petition on prolonging arrest. The investigator presented it, the prosecutors presented their arguments on why they back the investigator. After it, for almost three hours we were presenting our viewpoints, objections,” he said, adding that he and Mr Khudoyan presented objections at today’s hearing while Mr Sahakyan and Orbelyan will continue presenting objections tomorrow.

He said they are presenting objections both orally and submit video materials as well. In particular, they are going to pass to the court videos of rallies of March 1, 2008.

He said one of the videos shows how a citizen shot in the direction of police officers.