Jhangiryan Requests Court to Nullify Kocharian's 2008 Orders

The judicial information system "Datalex" reports that former Deputy Attorney General Gagik Jhangiryan has filed a lawsuit demanding the nullification of the two orders issued by the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharian, on February 23, 2008. One of these orders pertains to the decision to dismiss him from the position of Deputy Attorney General, while the other is related to his removal from the class rank of a first-class state advisor of justice.

Earlier, we reported that ten years after the incident, Gagik Jhangiryan filed a cassation appeal regarding his case and was acquitted. The appeal concerned the events of February 23, 2008. According to the accusatory conclusion, at the moment of entering the administrative building of the Chief Department of Police of the Republic of Armenia, he allegedly struck an employee of the department, Arman Harutyunyan, causing physical pain, and also tore the uniform of Tigran Aghvanian.

He was accused of committing an act of violence against representatives of the authorities performing official duties, which was not dangerous to life and health. In 2009, the court found Gagik Jhangiryan guilty under the first part of Article 316 of the Criminal Code of Armenia and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment. That same year, Jhangiryan appealed the first-instance court's decision in the appellate court, but it remained unchanged. By 2019, however, Jhangiryan was acquitted; the cassation court granted his complaint against the judicial act that resolved his case on the merits.