Armenia’s former President Robert Kocharyan again filed a defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday. In the legal claim published on DataLex judicial information system, the ex-president demands “protection of his dignity and honor from public slander.”
At a news conference on Wednesday, Kocharyan's lawyer Hayk Alumyan did not rule out that the defense team may drop the lawsuit if the prime minister retracts his statements, but he did not specify which statements prompted the legal claim.
Kocharyan sued Pashinyan for slander for the first time in September 2018 after the PM’s remarks made in Paris. “What does immunity mean? So what, is it permitted to organize killings and then say, I am immune?” Pashinyan had said.
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