The criminal case brought last June against participants in nonstop demonstrations in central Yerevan has been reopened, it emerged on Monday.
A notoriously violent son of an Armenian regional government was set free on Thursday two months after being arrested on charges of leading a brutal attack on two men outside his hometown of Goris in May.
Opposition and civil activists in Armenia say they don’t know a man who asked for political asylum in Azerbaijan last week, claiming to be an Armenian civic activist persecuted in his home country.
Judges of the Court of Cassation, Armenia’s highest criminal and administrative justice body, as well as their close relatives claim to have received last year at least $126,000 in financial aid from sources not disclosed by them.
The Armenian government hastily dismissed on Wednesday a reputedly violent bodyguard of Suren Khachatrian, the controversial governor of the Syunik province, after it emerged that he also works as deputy director of a local public school.
A senior member of the Armenian Pan-National Movement (HHSh) left the opposition party on Friday in protest against its apparent readiness to support a controversial constitutional reform initiated by President Serzh Sarkisian.
An Armenian court on Friday fined a senior army officer 120,000 drams ($250) in connection with a 2013 shootout outside the home of Suren Khachatrian, a controversial provincial governor, which left his brother dead.
Armenia’s possible accession to new “supranational” alliances would have to be put on a referendum and approved by most voters, according to one of the constitutional changes drafted by a commission formed by President Serzh Sarkisian.
An Armenian businessman was beaten up and hospitalized over the weekend in an attack which he said was led by Ruben Hayrapetian, a government-linked and reputedly violent tycoon heading the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA).
About two dozen Armenian lawyers have launched a campaign against the proposed amendments to Armenia’s Constitution, discarding them as “a waste of resources” aimed at serving the interests of the ruling party.
While more powers are expected to be given to local government bodies in Armenia under proposed constitutional amendments, the country’s main opposition parties still remain skeptical about their chances of winning races in communities where government-linked families usually hold sway.
Civic activists and opposition members in Armenia consider the proposed amendment to the constitutional article on freedom of assembly to be an attempt by the authorities to eliminate the notion of “spontaneous” gatherings.
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Thursday called on the country’s opposition and civic groups to join forces against a constitutional reform which it said is aimed at “perpetuating” President Serzh Sarkisian’s hold on power.
Armenian opposition leaders accused the authorities on Monday of seeking to facilitate the use of lethal force against dissent through one of the draft constitutional amendments that were made public last week.
A major opposition party headed by Armenia’s former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Thursday condemned sweeping constitutional changes drafted by a state commission and vowed to do “everything” to scuttle their passage in a referendum expected in the coming months.
In a move which some observers link with a controversial constitutional reform planned by President Serzh Sarkisian, Armenia’s Justice Minister Hovannes Manukian has unexpectedly stepped down after only 14 months in office.
The editor of an Armenian pro-opposition media outlet is risking imprisonment for defying a controversial court order to disclose the source of its report that implicated a senior police officer in a violent assault last year.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed armed forces threatened late on Tuesday to respond strongly to what they called a sharp rise in ceasefire violations by Azerbaijani forces deployed near the disputed territory.
The National Assembly rejected on Wednesday an opposition proposal to ban President Serzh Sarkisian from using Armenia’s armed forces to enforce a possible state of emergency.
Two leading opposition parties made clear on Tuesday that they will continue to cooperate with Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) despite renewed speculation about his close ties to former President Robert Kocharian.
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