Court Hearing in Armen Ashtoyan's Case Postponed, Lawyer

The hearing regarding the extension of Armen Ashtoyan's detention will be held on August 14, Monday. The investigator presented 9 audio recordings, and the judge has decided to give Ashtoyan time to familiarize himself with them, his lawyer Tigran Atanesyan stated in a conversation with journalists.

“We asked the judge to leave it unexamined since it is not addressed to him, to which our esteemed judge replied that this is a technical error, there is no such situation, there is no such regulation. We will definitely appeal to the relevant authorities regarding this matter to raise the issue of the judge's accountability. The judge accepted a motion that was not addressed to him. Secondly, we filed a dismissal against the judge, considering that the judge's father and brother have been subjected to political persecution related to March 1. Now it turns out that you are persecuting a representative of the former government, which he did not accept, stating that Ashtoyan was neither an investigator, nor a prosecutor, nor a judge. We are facing such chaos,” the lawyer noted.