On April 10, lawyer Ara Zohrabyan informed that the criminal court of the first instance of general jurisdiction of the city of Yerevan (judge: Ani Danielyan) made a decision to satisfy the appeal of the defender of the Catholicos of All Armenians. Based on the court’s decision, the restraining order applied to the Catholicos of All Armenians is subject to cancellation.

Let’s remind that RA Investigative Committee (investigator Ara Avagyan) on 14.02.2026 made a decision and applied the prohibition of absence to the Catholicos of All Armenians as a preventive measure.
Due to that ban, as well as the refusal of permission to travel to Georgia by the investigator, the Catholicos of All Armenians could not participate in the holy ceremony of the funeral of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II.

Now, the judge of the Kentron seat, Ani Danielyan, has ordered the investigator to remove the restraining order against Vehapar.

Earlier, on April 1, it was lawyer Harut Aklunts informed that Judge Arman Hovhannisyan of the Yerevan General Jurisdiction Criminal Court, Avan and Nor Nork seat, satisfied his complaint against the actions of the investigator and the prosecutor, recognized the fact of the violation of the right of His Holiness Father Haykazun Archbishop Najarian and obliged the investigator to remove the restraining measure applied to Haykazun Srbazan, the ban on absence.

In general, according to the information of 168.am, 5 complaints were submitted against the reverends, three of which were rejected, and the complaints brought by two of them, the Reverend Hayrapet and the Reverend Haykazun, were satisfied, and first Judge Arman Hovhannisyan, then Judge Ani Danielyan recognized the violations of their rights and obliged to eliminate them.

Moreover, by the decision of Judge Arman Hovhannisyan, the issue of eliminating the violation of the right was examined and the legal idea that the preventive measure of absence cannot be recognized as a violation at that stage was overcome.

Arman Hovhannisyan’s decision was actually not problematic, because Ani Danielyan acted in exactly the same way, recognizing the fact of violation of Catholicos’ rights and obliging to eliminate them.

By the way, at the end of yesterday, it became known that the General Prosecutor’s Office is not backing down, and the RA General Prosecutor’s Office will file an appeal against the removal of the restraining order applied to Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II.

Probably, for Anna Vardapetyan, Vehapar’s non-traveling status is a matter of principle.

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