A court in Yerevan on Monday refused to release Samvel Babayan, a retired army general linked to the Armenian opposition, from custody pending a verdict in his ongoing trial on controversial charges of illegal arms possession.
Armenia’s national bar association may take disciplinary action against two lawyers accused by law-enforcement authorities of misconduct relating to the ongoing trials of radical opposition leader Zhirayr Sefilian and his supporters.
One of the organizers of last summer’s rallies held in support of opposition gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan will likely go on trial soon on what he considers trumped-up and politically motivated charges.
The tense trial of Zhirayr Sefilian, a radical opposition figure, and six other men accused of plotting an armed revolt against the Armenian government continued on Tuesday in the absence of most defendants and their lawyers.
Armed members of an Armenian fringe opposition group broke the law when they seized a police station in Yerevan last summer, a leader of the opposition Yelk alliance insisted over the weekend.
A well-known civic activist accused Armenian law-enforcement authorities of attempting to fabricate criminal charges against him after spending about an hour in police custody on Wednesday.
Opposition leader Zaruhi Postanjian said on Monday that her Yerkir Tsirani party will take up its seats in Yerevan’s new municipal council despite rejecting as fraudulent the official results of local elections held on May 14.
Police in Yerevan on Sunday forcibly removed Zaruhi Postanjian, an opposition mayoral candidate, from a campaign office of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) which she accused of bribing voters.
Voters in Yerevan went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new municipal council that will appoint the Armenian capital’s mayor.
Zaruhi Postanjian, one of the two opposition candidates in the upcoming mayoral elections in Yerevan, on Friday urged voters to help her end Republican Party (HHK) rule in Armenia which she denounced as a “dictatorship.”
The Armenian Communist Party (HKK) blamed its poor showing in the recent parliamentary elections on fraud as it held a traditional May Day demonstration in Yerevan on Monday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have levelled new and more serious criminal charges against one of the organizers of last summer’s rallies held in support of gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) expressed confidence at the weekend that it will retain control over the Yerevan municipality as a result of next month’s mayoral elections.
Armenian-American rock musician Serj Tankian has condemned the pro-government directors of 30 schools and kindergartens in Armenia for suing a civic organization that exposed their highly controversial involvement in the ruling HHK party’s parliamentary election campaign.
Nikol Pashinian, a leader of the opposition Yelk alliance, will challenge Yerevan’s pro-government incumbent Mayor Taron Markarian in next month’s municipal elections, it was announced on Friday.
Opposition groups that have failed to win seats in Armenia’s new parliament on Monday condemned the authorities’ handling of the weekend elections but stopped short of calling for anti-government street protests.
Former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Friday that his ORO alliance hopes to form a coalition with other opposition forces and unseat Armenia’s government as a result of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
An opposition alliance headed by former President Levon Ter-Petrosian claimed to be gaining growing voter support on Wednesday as it rallied thousands of people in Yerevan four days before Armenia’s parliamentary elections.
Former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian and his opposition allies rallied several thousand supporters in Yerevan on Tuesday, again calling on Armenians to use the upcoming general elections to change their government.
A senior European Union diplomat reacted on Friday with caution to the controversial arrest of an Armenian opposition figure, Samvel Babayan, urging the authorities in Yerevan to conduct a “transparent” investigation.
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