Court changes restraint measure against woman accused of kidnapping Pashinyan's son

The Court of Appeal of Armenia changed the preventive measure against Gayane Hakobyan (Martirosyan, the mother of the deceased soldier Zhora Martirosyan), from detention to house arrest. She is accused of organizing the kidnapping of the son of the Armenian prime minister, and has been under arrest since May 20, Report informs via Sputnik-Armenia.

Belated justice, Judge of the Court of Appeal Grigory Hovhannisyan changed the measure of restraint against Hakobyan, her lawyer Georgi Melikyan said.

On May 17, after the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article “kidnapping”, based on the statement of Ashot Pashinyan, the son of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Gayane Hakobyan was detained.

According to investigators, members of the Call of Sons organization forced Pashinyan Jr. to get into their car, but he managed to jump out and was hit by another car.

The Call of Sons organization denied the kidnapping accusation. According to them, Pashinyan Jr. voluntarily got into the car of the mother of the deceased soldier and agreed to go to the Yerablur military cemetery in Yerevan, but jumped out of the car on the way.