21/01/2019 13:52
Second president’s defense team reports about impeding the right of appeal by court
The Yerevan court of general jurisdiction till now has not provided to the defense team of Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan the text of the decision it made on January 18 on upholding the petition of the investigator to prolong the arrest of for another two months and on denying the petition of the defense side on changing the preventive measure from arrest to release on bail.
Representative from the staff of the judge Artur Mkrtchyan informed the attorneys that the judicial act is not ready yet.
The defense side claims that by not providing the judicial act to the attorneys the court impedes the implementation of the right of appeal unnecessarily protracting the time of examination of the case in the Court of Appeal.