At his trial today, former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan claimed that a recent court decision not to make all the case materials accessible to his lawyers is yet further evidence that the odds have been illegally stacked against him.

Kocharyan, now on trial for bribery and usurpation of state power, said that one of the main reasons the court isn’t making all the evidence available is that it would contradict the prosecution’s allegations against Kocharyan.

"I have good reason to believe that these 600 volumes have enough material to reveal the ten killings. I suspect that they just don't want to provide the material,” Kocharyan said.

Ten people (eight civilians and two police officers) died in the March 2008 Yerevan protests.

Armenia’s Criminal Appeals Court, on February 6, overturned a lower court’s decision to hand over all the case material in the March 1, 2008 trial to the lawyers of former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan.