The situation with human rights in Armenia is not as bad as one might think, Iran’s most prominent dissident and Nobel Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, said on Tuesday, defending the holding of an international conference in Yerevan.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) accused the government on Friday of deliberately spreading talk of an impending Armenian-Azerbaijani war for domestic political purposes.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Thursday defended former President Robert Kocharian’s criticism of the Armenian government’s economic policies and his calls for continued government support for the domestic construction industry.
An Armenian court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit against a controversial mining project which ecologists say would wreak further havoc on Armenia’s shrinking green areas.
Law-enforcement authorities in Armenia said on Thursday that they have formally closed a highly controversial criminal case against a youth activist who helped to trigger a scandal about alleged sexual and other abuse at a Yerevan school for disabled children.
The U.S. Embassy in Armenia publicly honored on Wednesday a young Armenian activist controversially prosecuted after publicizing alleged sexual and other abuse at a Yerevan boarding school.
Justice Minister Gevorg Danielian ordered an inquiry on Thursday after the publication of a revealing prison photograph that shows the editor of a pro-government newspaper in the company of three men serving life sentences for politically motivated murders.
Medical authorities in Yerevan reported on Tuesday what they suspect was the first fatality caused by swine flu in Armenia.
Two more persons have been diagnosed with swine flu in Armenia, raising to five the number of such cases registered to date, a senior aide to Health Minister Harutiun Kushkian said on Wednesday.
The first suspected cases of swine flu have been detected in Armenia, health officials said on Monday, urging the population not to “panic.” (UPDATED)
Armenia remained ahead of three of its four neighbors in the United Nations’ latest index of people’s well-being around the world.
A young civic activist who triggered a scandal about alleged sexual and other abuse at a Yerevan boarding school said Wednesday that she has turned down a police offer to ask for a pardon and thus avoid trial on controversial libel charges.
Armenian police on Monday thwarted a protest in Yerevan planned by a group of young people demanding that the government refuse to endorse the planned deal with Turkey.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday continued his weeklong tour of major Armenian communities to discuss and promote his far-reaching diplomatic overtures to Turkey that many in the Diaspora have been following with unease.
Dozens of members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) began non-stop sit-ins outside two key government buildings in Yerevan on Tuesday in protest against the recently publicized agreements on the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations. (UPDATED)
Five young athletes from Azerbaijan arrived in Yerevan late on Tuesday to compete in a European judo championship for juniors and mark their country’s first-ever participation in a sporting event held in Armenia since the Soviet collapse.
The United States has reiterated its support for normalization of relations between Yerevan and Ankara and the opening of the border.
A prominent television journalist who was beaten up by unknown men in May has dismissed the recently published police version that the attack on him was a case of ‘mistaken identity’.
A senior figure of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) has effectively linked a recent U.S. court decision invalidating a law that allowed hairs of Armenian genocide survivors to seek payments on dead relatives’ life insurance policies to what the nationalist party has viewed as Armenian diplomatic failures in the ongoing negotiations with Turkey.
The lawyer of a young civic activist charged with ‘false denunciation’ after making allegations of sexual and other abuse at a Yerevan school for children with special needs has brushed aside the charge against her client as ‘totally ungrounded’ and pledged to seek the revelation of “real circumstances of the case”.
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