On April 30, 2025, during the preliminary hearing, the Criminal Court of First Instance of Yerevan lifted the house arrest imposed as a preventive measure on A.P., a client of our office’s attorney Edgar Ayvazyan, who is accused of committing a grave crime (Article 393, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia), and replaced it with a more lenient measure — administrative supervision.
We thank Judge Roman Smbatyan for delivering a fair judicial decision.
Criminal case
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