Critics of the Armenian government expressed on Friday serious concern over an apparent lack of progress in a yearlong investigation into the alleged torture of an opposition supporter arrested for insulting a pro-government lawmaker.
Another house in a village on Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan was hit late on Wednesday by what the Armenian Defense Ministry described as cross-border gunfire.
European Union monitors confirmed on Tuesday that an Armenian border village was targeted by gunshots which local residents and Armenia’s Defense Ministry say were fired from nearby Azerbaijani army positions.
Four days after former President Serzh Sarkisian pledged to continue fighting for regime change in Armenia, an appeals court overturned his acquittal over corruption accusations rejected by him as politically motivated.
Ruling on an opposition appeal filed more than two years ago, Armenia’s Constitutional Court has largely refused to invalidate a controversial law that allows law-enforcement authorities to confiscate assets of former state officials deemed to have been acquired illegally.
An Armenian court on Friday acquitted a 71-year-old refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh prosecuted for hurling an apple towards Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in protest.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have confirmed that they have withdrawn an international arrest warrant for an Azerbaijani man accused by them of beheading a Nagorno-Karabakh civilian during the 2020 war.
An Armenian court freed on Wednesday an opposition candidate and another woman arrested during the weekend local election in Gyumri.
Law-enforcement officers ill-treated a female opposition candidate and two other elderly women in Gyumri who were arrested during the weekend municipal election held there, lawyers representing them claimed on Tuesday.
Law-enforcement authorities have freed all eight people arrested in Thursday’s police raids on the offices of two opposition blocs challenging Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party in the upcoming municipal election in Gyumri.
Investigators have searched the home of the mayor of the Armenian town of Vagharshapat affiliated with the ruling Civil Contract party following a deadly shooting at a local gas station belonging to her father-in-law.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have filed new criminal charges against former President Serzh Sarkisian less than one year after he was acquitted in a marathon corruption trial, it emerged on Wednesday.
An Armenian appeals court has invalidated a gag order that was imposed a month ago on a refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh prosecuted after disseminating video of several foreigners signing an Azerbaijani song in Yerevan’s central square.
A U.S. lawyer representing Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s effective refusal to do more for the release of his client and other Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted at the weekend that his government is doing its best behind the scenes to try to secure the release of eight former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh and other Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan.
Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian businessman and philanthropist jailed in Azerbaijan, reportedly felt unwell during his ongoing trial on Tuesday one week after going on hunger strike to protest against the “judicial farce.”
An outspoken critic of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has been indicted and banned from verbally attacking Armenia’s highest court accused by him of serving Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Armenian lawyers went on a one-day strike on Monday as they continued to protest against their exclusion them from a preferential tax regime that has long been enjoyed by them and many other small businesses.
An Armenian court sentenced a former commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s army to five and a half years in prison on Friday after holding him responsible for one of the military setbacks suffered during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities said on Monday that they have brought a string of criminal charges against Arshak Karapetian, a Russian-based former defense minister who has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of treason and pledged to topple him.
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