Ex-Armenian president’s interrogation to be videotaped
26.07.2018,
14:57
The interrogation of former Armenian president Robert Kocharian, ordered by an Armenian law-enforcement agency investigating the 2008 post-election crackdown on opposition protesters in Yerevan, when eight protesters and two police servicemen were killed, will be videotaped, the head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan said before a Cabinet session today.
YEREVAN, July 26. /ARKA/. The interrogation of former Armenian president Robert Kocharian, ordered by an Armenian law-enforcement agency investigating the 2008 post-election crackdown on opposition protesters in Yerevan, when eight protesters and two police servicemen were killed, will be videotaped, the head of the Special Investigation Service Sasun Khachatryan said before a Cabinet session today.
Kocharyan as well as the current secretary general of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Yury Khachaturov, who served in 2008 as chief of the Yerevan military garrison, were summoned for questioning by the Special Investigative Service as witnesses.
Also former defense minister Mikael Harutyunyan is wanted by the law-enforcement authorities as a defendant in the case. He is accused of illegally using the Armenian armed forces against opposition supporters who demonstrated in Yerevan in the wake of the disputed presidential election held in February 2008.
According to official vote results, the election was won by then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan. The main opposition presidential candidate, Levon Ter-Petrosian, rejected them as fraudulent.
"The videotaping of the interrogation of Robert Kocharian will become part of the investigation, but it does not mean that it will be published," Sasun Khachatryan said. -0-
Kocharyan as well as the current secretary general of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Yury Khachaturov, who served in 2008 as chief of the Yerevan military garrison, were summoned for questioning by the Special Investigative Service as witnesses.
Also former defense minister Mikael Harutyunyan is wanted by the law-enforcement authorities as a defendant in the case. He is accused of illegally using the Armenian armed forces against opposition supporters who demonstrated in Yerevan in the wake of the disputed presidential election held in February 2008.
According to official vote results, the election was won by then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan. The main opposition presidential candidate, Levon Ter-Petrosian, rejected them as fraudulent.
"The videotaping of the interrogation of Robert Kocharian will become part of the investigation, but it does not mean that it will be published," Sasun Khachatryan said. -0-
