Vahagn Melikyan, judge of the Yerevan Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction in the criminal case against Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II and six bishops, members of the Supreme Spiritual Council, has appealed to the Court of Cassation to resolve the issue of jurisdiction. The information was confirmed by the court.
Thus, the third judge refuses to examine the “case” of His Holiness the Patriarch. The first judge examining the Catholicos’ case, Hakob Manukyan, recused himself on August 7. On August 10, the case was assigned to Serzh Rushanyan, who sent the case to the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction.
