The First Instance Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan City has rejected the motion of the lawyers of our office, Arsen Sardaryan, and Edgar Ayvazyan, to apply detention as a preventive measure against their client, F.G., a citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who was accused of using a forged passport and illegally crossing the state border of the Republic of Armenia. Instead, the court selected administrative supervision, bail, and a prohibition on leaving as preventive measures for F.G. We are grateful to Judge Martin Arzumanyan for conducting a lawful, adversarial trial, as well as for issuing an exceptional, humanitarian, and well-reasoned judicial act.
Criminal case
MAR 26, 2026
The prosecutor’s appeal seeking to keep our client, accused of serious crimes, in detention has been dismissed, and days later administrative supervision was applied to our client.
As previously reported, in February 2026 the Anti-Corruption Court of the Republic of Armenia rejected the investigator’s motion to extend the…
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