The 15-year-old son of an opposition activist arrested during a violent anti-government protest in Yerevan last November was also charged in connection with that incident on Wednesday, risking up to 7 years in prison.
Six men have been convicted of beating to death a military doctor and sentenced to lengthy prison terms as a high-profile murder trial concluded in Yerevan on Monday.
The Armenian government was in no rush to officially recognize Ukraine’s new authorities on Monday just as the National Assembly in Yerevan observed a minute of silence for more than 80 people killed in last week’s bloody clashes in Kiev.
A senior member of a parliamentary opposition party believes that the latest move of the government of Armenia to allow a wider Russian military presence in Armenian territory goes against the interests of the nation.
An Armenian opposition activist was set free on Monday more than two years after being arrested on charges which he and his supporters consider politically motivated.
Several dozen veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war stormed into a court building in Yerevan on Thursday angered by the decision of the judge to hold a closed-door hearing of the appeal filed by their former companion-in-arms over his imprisonment.
The Armenian parliament approved on Thursday a general amnesty that will lead to the release of hundreds of individuals serving prison sentences for various crimes.
A candidate of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) swept to a landslide victory in a weekend parliamentary by-election amid allegations of fraud and vote buying made by his opposition challenger.
A retired senior Armenian army officer who has organized non-stop demonstrations by fellow veterans of the Nagorno-Karabakh war in recent months was arrested on suspicion of fraud on Friday.
Yet another participant of a continuing sit-in outside the Yerevan Mayor’s Office was allegedly beaten up on Wednesday night in what leaders of the protest call a government-backed campaign of intimidation.
An Armenian opposition activist was remanded in pre-trial custody on Monday on charges of assaulting a police officer during street protests against a controversial construction project in Yerevan.
The Armenian police have launched criminal proceedings against one of more than two dozen civic activists who were briefly detained at the weekend while trying to stop what they see as illegal construction in Yerevan.
State prosecutors have launched criminal proceedings against several police officers suspected of torturing an Armenian opposition supporter who was jailed following the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
The owners of private companies operating Yerevan’s public transport system on Wednesday strongly defended the municipal government’s controversial decision to sharply raise fares in the capital, saying that it will save them from financial ruin.
Dozens of youth activists stopped public buses and minibuses in Yerevan for a third consecutive day on Monday, urging commuters to refuse to pay much higher fares set by municipal authorities.
Russian law-enforcement officials have assured Armenian diplomats that they did not mean to humiliate an Armenian migrant worker who was paraded on Russian television after causing a deadly bus crash near Moscow late last week.
Law-enforcement authorities have decided to press criminal charges against a senior Armenian army officer who was seriously wounded outside the home of a regional governor last month in a gunfight that left his brother dead.
Military authorities in Armenia were investigating on Monday yet another death of a soldier in non-combat circumstances that was reported over the weekend.
The notoriously violent governor of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province said on Monday that he is “temporarily” stepping down in connection with a weekend shootout outside his villa that left one of his local rivals dead and two other men injured.
President Serzh Sarkisian’s staff has allocated some 500 million drams ($1.2 million) in grants to three dozen non-governmental organizations that have generally avoided publicizing their activities purportedly including human rights advocacy.
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