YEREVAN, August 8. /ARKA/. The Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office declined today the motion filed by some MPs wanting former president Robert Kocharyan to be released, Arevik Khachatryan, the press secretary of the office told Novosti-Armenia.
On July 28, Kocharyan was charged with toppling constitutional order in collusion with other persons and detained.
The case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan was declared the winner, angering the opposition, led by the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and setting off 10 days of nonstop protests that led to a crackdown on March 1, in which 10 people were killed and more than 200 injured.
Kocharyan will remain in detention pending trial. -0—