A lawyer for Vartan Sedrakian on Thursday asked Armenia's Court of Appeals to overturn what he called an illegal pre-trial arrest of the presidential candidate accused of attempting to kill another contender.
The lawyer, Aleksandr Sirunian, insisted that the National Security Service (NSS) was not allowed to arrest Sedrakian without the consent of the Central Election Commission (CEC).
Sedrakian, who got less than 1 percent of the vote in the February 19 election, was questioned and arrested by the NSS late on Tuesday on charges of organizing the January 31 shooting attack on fellow candidate Paruyr Hayrikian. A district court in Yerevan swiftly allowed the NSS to keep him under arrest pending trial.
Armenian News
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