Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited Monday morning his supporters who have blocked a courthouse in central Yerevan.
Judges and staffers of courthouses across Armenia are unable to enter their offices as citizens have blocked the entrances to the buildings.
Member of the Supreme Judicial Council Hayk Hovhannisyan says Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s call to bloc
Citizens are blocking courthouses in Yerevan since early Monday morning as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on supporters to do so in the evening of May 19.
The crowd that gathered at one of the courts after the call of the Prime Minister has already broken windows and pushed and shoved judges going to work. Police officers are inactive. You won’t get away with this, Nikol Pashinyan.
Article 4 of the Constitution prescribes that state power shall be exercised in conformity with the Constitution and the laws, based on the separation and balance of the legislative, executive and judicial powers.
“First of all, this is very dangerous” — this is the first response of international law expert, attorney Ara Ghazaryan to the statement that Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan made via his Facebook page, stating that the entrances to and exits from all courts of the Republic of Armenia must be blocked starting from 08:30 tomorrow morning and that he will give a speech live at 12:00.
“Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has instructed citizens of the Republic of Armenia to block the entrances to and exits from all Armenian courts. This is disrupting the activities of courts as a constitutional institution protecting human rights and settling disputes on the basis of law.
A while ago, state and political figure Davit Shahnazaryan addressed President of the Republic of Armenia Armen Sarkissian with the following call:
Shortly after a Yerevan court ordered Robert Kocharyan to be freed from pre-trial detention, the ex-president was released from the National Security Service jail in downtown of the city.
