Political scientist: Armenian judge is being politically persecuted

Judge Davit Grigoryan, who rendered the decision to release second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan from detention, is being politically persecuted. This is what head of the Media Defender initiative Aghasi Yenokyan told journalists today.

According to him, this implies that since judges have a heavy workload, Davit Grigoryan didn’t manage to examine the case and issued a document stating that case examination is being postponed. “It’s surprising to see a crime here because there has to be a benefit in a crime.”

According to the political scientist, this was the next step to make the judiciary submissive to the authorities. He emphasized that the charge filed against Davit Grigoryan is completely phony and that the phoniness may be shown in the first instance court.

On July 27, the Supreme Judicial Council upheld the motions of the Prosecutor General’s Office and gave consent to the institution of criminal prosecution against Davit Grigoryan. Upon the decision of the Council, the judge’s powers have been terminated.

Davit Grigoryan was the judge in the case of second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan and, on May 18, rendered a decision to release Kocharyan, accepting as a basis the personal pledge of the incumbent and former presidents of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic).