Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has called on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to abandon plans to storm the Echmiadzin headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church and to free instead two archbishops and other jailed critics described by him as political prisoners.
A maverick opposition politician was arrested and charged with calling for a violent overthrow of Armenia’s government at the weekend after saying that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian must be “thrown out” of office.
One week after arresting an opposition activist and then releasing him without charge, Armenian law-enforcement authorities have still not returned a mobile phone confiscated from his father, parliament deputy Gegham Manukian.
Five of the seven Armenian opposition activists arrested late last week on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks have been released without charge.
Seven more members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) were arrested on Thursday on charges or suspicion of “terrorism” dismissed by the opposition party as politically motivated.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Tuesday that prosecutors will ask the National Assembly for permission to indict an opposition lawmaker and close collaborator of an Armenian archbishop arrested on coup charges last week.
Aram Hovannisian, the chief of Armenia’s national police service who has personally led crackdowns on antigovernment protesters, was unexpectedly dismissed on Monday.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and politician who used to challenge Armenia’s current government, has said that he has still not decided whether to run in the next general elections expected in June 2026.
A senior official from Armenia’s Investigative Committee has been arrested following an extraordinary theft of $590,000 in cash kept in one of the law-enforcement agency’s buildings in Yerevan.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) again raided the headquarters of Yerevan’s municipal administration on Tuesday, arresting two more officials working there.
At least one senior official from Armenia’s National Archive has been charged with spying for Azerbaijan, it emerged on Wednesday.
The Armenian police have denied mistreating or humiliating a vocal critic of the government who was arrested late last week on multiple charges denied by her.
In what local journalists see as a pre-election attempt to curb press freedom, Armenia’s Ministry of Justice has drafted legislation that would force online media to remove content deemed slanderous by authorities.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian called on Thursday for the resignation of the head of Yerevan’s Nor Nork district who beat up last week a video blogger critical of the municipal administration.
A political ally of Robert Kocharian accused on Wednesday a rival opposition group of using dirty tricks to try to undercut the former Armenian president and the leader of the Hayastan alliance before the next general elections.
An Armenian judge known for sanctioning the arrests of opposition figures was remanded in pre-trial custody on Thursday the day after the country’s judicial watchdog allowed a law-enforcement agency to prosecute him for bribery.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has pledged to investigate a pro-government website editor and blogger over their offensive comments about disgruntled refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh.
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.
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