Armenia PM Pashinyan to not be questioned at court in criminal case against opposition party leader

YEREVAN. – The court session on the criminal case against Aram Harutyunyan, head of the opposition National Accord party of Armenia, started Monday at the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan.

The prosecution publicized Harutyunyan's indictment. But the defendant stated that he does not plead guilty and that the charge was not clear to him.

Aram Harutyunyan's attorney, Sergey Harutyunyan, motioned the court to lift his client’s pretrial measure of a signature bond not to leave the country. According to the investigator, Harutyunyan is suspected of committing a crime of medium gravity, and that he may be hiding from the body conducting the proceedings, so it is necessary to remand him in custody.