The Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction resumed on Tuesday hearings in the trial of President Robert Kocharyan and three other former senior officials Armen Gevorgyan, Seyran Ohanyan and Yuri Khachaturov prosecuted in connection with the March 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
Both supporters and critics of the former president are again staging demonstrations outside the court building, trading insults.
One of the victim’s legal successor Tigran Yegoryan was absent from the court hearing, but there were no objections to continue it.
One of Kocharyan’s lawyers Hovhannes Khudoyan had petitioned presiding judge Anna Danibekyan, as well as prosecutor Petros Petrosyan to recuse themselves from the trial, the judge said.
Khudoyan argued that the rulings issued by the ...
