Ex-president Kocharyan’s defense team files another petition to release their defendant for bail

Defense team of Armenia’s ex-president Robert Kocharyan filed another petition to the court to release their defendant for bail.

The petition followed after the judge stated about declining the petition to change the preventive measure and release Kocharyan from custody.

Presenting the petition, lawyer Hovhannes Khudoyan noted that the sum of the bail may be left on the court to decide.

Khudoyan said the petition has been filed earlier too but was not referred to by the court for already three months with it violating Robert Kocharyan’s right to fair trial.

“We think thof tat in this phase he trial the grounds for applying arrest as preventive measure for Robert Kocharyan completely lack,” Khudoyan stated.

He stressed that Robert Kocharyan always showed up while being summoned to the investigative body.

“Mr Kocharyan arrived from abroad to participate in the processes. Neither the investigator nor the prosecutor managed to present any grounds that Kocharyan would impede the process,” Khudoyan said.