Armenia’s former parliament speaker Ara Babloyan strongly denied on Wednesday any involvement in a “usurpation of power” alleged by a law-enforcement agency as he risked being prosecuted on coup charges.
Gagik Harutiunian on Wednesday dismissed as “fairy tales” government claims that the former Armenian authorities forced him to resign as chairman of the Constitutional Court last year to make way for a new chief justice handpicked by them.
Citing health reasons, a wealthy businessman prosecuted on corruption charges has postponed his return to Armenia from Germany where he was allowed to receive medical treatment early this year.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has formally agreed to advise Armenia’s Constitutional Court on the legality of coup charges brought against former President Robert Kocharian.
The judge presiding over the trial of Robert Kocharian dismissed on Monday his lawyers’ claims that she is biased against the Armenia’s arrested former president and must therefore recuse herself from the case.
Alik Sargsian, a former chief of the Armenian police, has been charged with covering up what law-enforcement authorities now describe as security forces’ illegal post-election crackdown on opposition protesters in Yerevan in 2008.
The Court of Cassation, Armenia’s highest body of criminal justice, has rejected former President Robert Kocharian’s appeal against his renewed arrest allowed by a lower court in June.
A former chief of the Armenian police, Hayk Harutiunian, has been found shot to death in his home, law-enforcement authorities said on Tuesday.
Three days after deciding not to recognize Robert Kocharian’s arrest and prosecution as unconstitutional, a court in Yerevan also refused on Friday to release the former Armenian president from prison on bail.
Vladimir Gasparian, a former chief of the Armenian police, was charged on Wednesday with abusing his powers to benefit people working for former President Serzh Sarkisian’s brothers.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament will urge the Constitutional Court to replace its chairman, Hrayr Tovmasian, accusing him of mishandling judicial proceedings in the criminal case against former President Robert Kocharian.
Former President Robert Kocharian decried “the most disgraceful criminal case” in Armenia’s history on Thursday as a district court in Yerevan resumed his and three other former officials’ trial suspended four months ago.
Prosecutors and lawyers for Robert Kocharian have offered differing interpretations of the Constitutional Court’s decision to partly accept an appeal filed by Armenia’s jailed former president.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a legal provision that has been used by law-enforcement authorities for arresting and prosecuting former President Robert Kocharian.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court began on Tuesday final deliberations on former President Robert Kocharian’s appeal against his arrest and prosecution on coup charges.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has completed a criminal investigation that led to corruption charges brought against a senior government official who actively participated in last year’s “Velvet Revolution.”
A court in Yerevan has formally replaced the judge presiding over the stalled trial of former President Robert Kocharian.
Members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court will continue to receive their salaries and other benefits if they resign before November, according to a government bill made public late last week.
Armenia’s Special Investigation Service (SIS) provided no information to the BBC on the case concerning the 2008 post-election violence, the agency told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun.am) on Thursday.
An Armenian judge who presided over the trial of former President Robert Kocharian and released him on bail in May has been charged with forgery allegedly committed in relation to a separate case, the Special Investigation Service told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun.am) on Tuesday.
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