Kocharyan’s team ready for unexpected and influential steps, urge authorities not to make them act: lawyer

We are ready for very unexpected and influential steps, but we do not want the issue reach that point, Hayk Alumyan, lawyer of Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan, told the reporters today.

“There are already five appeals in the European Court, now we are working on the 6th. Today we started working in parallel on the appeal to Court of Cassation,” Alumyan said.

Yesterday the court rejected the appeal of Kocharyan’s defense team against the decision to prolong his arrest for another two months.

“This is a culmination of legal nonsense, violation of human rights and this cannot last so long. All these orders will not work always. Each judge has appeared between two stones: he/she must either violate law and stay in the history as a judge who illegally deprived Armenia’s second president from freedom or must apply the law and appear under such blows we saw in case of Mr Azaryan. This will have an end. The sooner the authorities understand that they should not act so, the lesser negative consequences they will face,” Alumyan said.