Law-enforcement authorities indicted Catholicos Garegin II on Saturday one day after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian implicitly pledged to prevent an upcoming meeting in Austria of the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Ignoring objections from opposition and press freedom groups, the Armenian parliament approved on Friday a government bill giving the authorities in Yerevan more powers to block broadcasts of foreign television programs critical of them.
Six members and supporters of an opposition group based in the Armenian town of Vagharshapat were arrested on Wednesday on charges described by its leader as politically motivated.
An Iranian woman living in Armenia claims to have been ordered to leave the country after ignoring Armenian authorities’ warnings to stop protesting outside Iran’s embassy in Yerevan along with her compatriots.
An appeals court on Friday agreed to move to house arrest one of the three Armenian archbishops jailed last year amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s controversial campaign to oust Catholicos Garegin II.
A district court extended the arrest of an Armenian bishop at odds with the government at the start of his trial on Monday.
One of the two hosts of an Armenian pro-opposition podcast arrested two months ago remained on hunger strike for the 11th day on Monday amid serious concerns for his life voiced by his friends and supporters.
Samvel Karapetian, a Russian-Armenian billionaire who plans to challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in Armenia’s forthcoming parliamentary elections, was taken back to prison on Friday less than three weeks after being moved to house arrest.
Faced with accusations of “political corruption,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday defended massive yearend bonuses paid to himself and other senior government officials, saying that the money will make them less prone to corruption.
Armenia’s government remains reluctant to provide lawyers representing an ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed by Azerbaijan with medical records which they say could facilitate his release from prison.
Police remained deployed around the offices of a pro-government bishop on Monday in an apparent effort to prevent the Armenian Apostolic Church from enforcing Catholicos Garegin II’s decision to dismiss him as head of a diocese just south of Yerevan.
The two hosts of an Armenian pro-opposition podcast went on trial on Friday two months after being arrested for verbally abusing parliament speaker Alen Simonian in response to his personal insults.
Lawyers representing one of the three Armenian archbishops jailed amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II said on Wednesday that they will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The Armenian opposition accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday of continuing to crack down on dissent ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections after eight more opposition members and supporters were arrested overnight.
Armenian prosecutors said on Monday that they are looking into calls for the murder of Catholicos Garegin II voiced by a supporter of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian outside a rural church.
One of a handful of ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh who did not flee the region during Azerbaijan’s September 2023 military offensive has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for allegedly plotting a “terrorist” attack on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has forced a local electronics chain to temporarily close its shops in Yerevan, acting on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s order denounced by critics as illegal and arbitrary.
Prosecutors failed to attend on Monday the first appeals court hearing on their demand for a longer prison sentence for one of the three Armenian archbishops jailed during Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing attempts to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
The Armenian Apostolic Church strongly condemned the Armenian authorities on Friday for arresting and bringing “baseless charges” against another of its bishops amid Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing drive to depose Catholicos Garegin II.
Armenia’s parliament approved on Thursday a government proposal to shorten compulsory military service in the country which is seen by the opposition as a pre-election ploy and serious threat to national security.
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