A court in Yerevan allowed investigators on Thursday to hold a former parliament staffer in detention on coup charges which his lawyers said are aimed at stepping up government pressure on Hrayr Tovmasian, the embattled chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian denied through a spokesman on Monday opposition claims that he ordered criminal proceedings against the chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, Hrayr Tovmasian, in a bid to force the latter to resign.
Members of the Constitutional Court on Monday rejected lawmakers’ calls for the dismissal of its chairman, Hrayr Tovmasian, who is increasingly at loggerheads with Armenia’s political leadership.
A senior pro-government parliamentarian refused to apologize on Thursday for his offensive comments about former Justice Minister Arpine Hovannisian’s parents which have caused a storm of condemnation from Armenian opposition politicians and public figures.
Gagik Tsarukian said on Wednesday that his opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) will not join the ruling My Step bloc in trying to oust the embattled chairman of the country’s Constitutional Court, Hrayr Tovmasian.
Five former and current members of the former ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) were reelected village mayors in weekend local polls in which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party fielded no candidates.
The pro-government majority in Armenia’s parliament will urge the Constitutional Court to replace its chairman, Hrayr Tovmasian, accusing him of mishandling judicial proceedings in the criminal case against former President Robert Kocharian.
Armenia would not hesitate to veto Azerbaijan’s possible attempts to gain a special status in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a senior Armenian lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Inmates of Armenia’s largest prison and other penitentiary institutions rioted for unclear reasons on Thursday evening.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court began on Tuesday final deliberations on former President Robert Kocharian’s appeal against his arrest and prosecution on coup charges.
A senior member of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian’s Armenian National Congress (HAK) party on Friday criticized the current government’s domestic and foreign policies, saying that they are not “clear” enough.
Armenia’s government allocated on Thursday 33.7 million drams ($70,000) in funding to two civil society groups for monitoring upcoming local elections in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A court in Yerevan on Tuesday again refused to release Manvel Grigorian, a retired Armenian army general facing a string of criminal charges, from prison on bail.
Government officials pointedly declined to invite businessman and opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian to a weekend investment conference in Armenia’s central Kotayk province where he has long been a leading economic player.
Justice Minister Rustam Badasian on Thursday defended a controversial government bill that offers members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court financial incentives to resign.
A member of Armenia’s Constitutional Court denounced the government on Tuesday for tentatively offering her and her colleagues financial incentives to resign.
A lawmaker representing the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian-led ruling alliance has dismissed as ludicrous assumptions by imprisoned former president Robert Kocharian that early elections are inevitable in Armenia and that the current government will fail to be reelected in such elections.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s recent conclusion that investigators violated the arrested former President Robert Kocharian’s legal rights when they froze his assets last year.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday decided to ask the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the Council Europe’s Venice Commission to give an “advisory opinion” on the legality of coup charges brought against former President Robert Kocharian.
The Armenian government insisted on Monday that a major Council of Europe body has not forced it to seriously revise sweeping judicial reforms announced by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in May.
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