The Armenian government has sent a formal request to the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) head office in Moscow to replace Yuri Khachatryan, a former Armenian deputy defense minister charged with “usurping state power” in March 2008, as secretary general.
Defense attorneys for Robert Kocharyan, Armenia’s second president who’s been charged with “usurping state power”, labelled the indictment and detention of their client a “vendetta that has no legal justification”.
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender (HRD) Arman Tatoyan today visited Robert Kocharyan, the country’s second president, who is being held in pre-trial detention on the charge of “usurping state power” during the March 1-2, 2008 public protests in Yerevan.
The Shengavit District Court reviewed the matter for seven hours before issuing its decision to keep Kocharyan in pre-trial detention.
A Yerevan court today decided that former Armenian deputy defense minister Yuri Khachaturov, charged with “usurping state power during the March 1-2, 2008 public protests in Yerevan...
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