Grigoryan: The Azerbaijani criminal is provided with unprecedentedly good conditions in the "KGB basements," while Kocharyan is in inhumane conditions in the neighboring cell

ArmInfo. Armenia's second president, Robert Kocharyan, is being held in inhumane conditions in the KGB basements, while the Azerbaijani who invaded the country and wounded an Armenian woman in the next room is being held in unprecedentedly good conditions. This was stated by Anna Grigoryan, head of the parliamentary faction "Armenia," at a press conference in Yerevan on November 11.

"The NSS pre-trial detention center of Armenia, better known as the 'KGB basements,' is simply a disgrace," "The Nubareshen penitentiary facility, which should be closed, is also," she said.

She then asked the assembled journalists if they knew where the Azerbaijani serviceman who illegally crossed the border of the Republic of Armenia, entered the home of a resident of the village of Shaki in the Syunik region, and shot her in the leg was being held. "The Azerbaijani serviceman is being held in the notorious 'KGB basements,' and in unprecedentedly good conditions, while President Robert Kocharyan is being held in the cell next to him, in inhumane conditions. This is what the current Armenian authorities actually look like: creating unprecedentedly favorable conditions for an Azerbaijani who infiltrated our country and wounded our compatriot, and keeping a person who is simply your political opponent locked up in inhumane conditions," Grigoryan noted. She recalled that Kocharyan is not only the second president of Armenia, he is also the former president of Artsakh. She reiterated that the cell where the country's second president is being held is in a state unacceptable by international standards, noting that such conditions should not exist in any correctional facility, regardless of the identity of the individual held there.

As a reminder, on August 25, National Security Council officers conducted searches of the apartment of Levon Kocharyan, an MP from the opposition Armenia faction and the son of second president Robert Kocharyan, and of companies affiliated with the Kocharyan family. Robert Kocharyan and Sedrak Kocharyan were then detained and taken to the Anti-Corruption Committee for questioning. Robert Kocharyan was charged that same day with large-scale money laundering, abuse of office (in connection with the ratification of government decisions - ed.), and accepting a large bribe. Nine other individuals were also charged in the case. On August 27, the Anti-Corruption Court ordered Kocharyan's arrest for two months, which was later extended.

It should be added that the political forces of Armenia's second president associate his arrest with an attempt to neutralize one of the main opposition figures amid the Armenian government's readiness to make further concessions to Azerbaijan.