Kocharyan’s attorney describes today’s court hearing “abnormal”

An abnormal situation has been created today at the hearing of petition on prolonging the arrest of Armenia’s second president and petition on changing his preventive measure, Kocharyan’s defense team member Aram Orbelyan told the reporters after the end of court hearing today.

“Some abnormal situation has been created as we previously submitted bail petition which we thought was to be examined separately and a decision was to be made over it because it referred to the second arrest decision by the Court of Appeal,” he said, adding that as far as the first examined petition was the one on prolonging the arrest, the petition on changing the preventive measure will refer to the third arrest.

Orbelyan also said the defense team has not set amount of bail, leaving it for court to decide.

The attorney also said that they submitted to the court video materials of March 1, 2008 rallies.

“We have presented more than 15 video materials. They all may be found in the web. Part of them relate to the developments before and after March 1, some refer to wiretapped conversations and some interviews conducted recently in which we see problems regarding fair judicial processes,” he said.