Today’s trial session of former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and his co-defendants, all charged with usurping state power in 2008, was postponed.
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Kocharyan is still being treated at Yerevan’s Izmirlian Medical Center after undergoing surgery.
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 Due to medical privacy laws in Armenia, no specifics regarding Kocharyan’s medical condition have been released.
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Inessa Petrosyan, the attorney representing Armenian former Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan, has been diagnosed with Covid-19.
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Erik Aleksanyan, the attorney representing former Armenian National Security Council Secretary Armen Gevorgyan, urged presiding Judge Anna Danibekyan to reschedule the trial given the recent uptick in confirmed Covid-19 cases in Armenia.
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The other co-defendant is former Armenian Deputy Minister of Defense Yuri Khachaturov.
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All have declared their innocence and have charged the Pashinyan government with conducting a political witch-hunt against them.
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H/T Hetq