A prominent war veteran highly critical of Armenia’s government was arrested on Wednesday one year after being charged with plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals has rejected prosecutors’ demands to overturn a lower court’s decision to throw out controversial coup charges that were brought against former President Robert Kocharian.
An Armenian soldier has been killed along the border with Azerbaijan in what military authorities in Yerevan said was shooting from the Azerbaijani side on Monday evening.
Former Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian is being prosecuted in a new corruption case, officials and his lawyer say.
Armenian prosecutors have refused to pave the way for a trial of former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian and four other men facing corruption charges, saying that a two-year criminal investigation conducted by another law-enforcement agency was flawed.
Azerbaijan set free and repatriated five more Armenian prisoners of war late on Tuesday.
Armenian prosecutors have asked a court to allow the confiscation of expensive properties belonging to the family of a former security official who was fired last year after allegedly disclosing an influential government minister’s criminal record.
An Armenian court has refused to allow Robert Kocharian, a former president leading the main opposition Hayastan alliance, to visit Moscow at the invitation of Russia’s ruling party.
Aghvan Hovsepian, Armenia’s former prosecutor-general, was arrested on Tuesday on a string of corruption charges denied by him.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals opened on Monday hearings on prosecutors’ demands to overturn a lower court’s decision to throw out coup charges that were brought against former President Robert Kocharian.
Authorities in Armenia plan to apply amnesty in regard to citizens accused of certain types of crimes and offenses related to last year’s war against Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A higher court in Armenia has granted an appeal by prosecutors seeking the re-arrest of a prominent surgeon who was charged with pressuring his subordinates to go to the polls in the June 20 parliamentary elections in which he participated as a candidate affiliated with an opposition alliance.
The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has drafted legislation aimed at “purging” Armenia’s courts, a controversial former prosecutor heading the state body said on Monday.
Vazgen Manukian, a veteran politician who led anti-government protests staged by the Armenian opposition this winter, went on trial on Tuesday, accused of calling for a violent overthrow of the constitutional order.
Armenian prosecutors are poised to ask courts to allow the confiscation of expensive properties and other assets of three former officials suspected of illegal enrichment.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party raised and spent more money during Armenia’s parliamentary election campaign than any of its opposition challengers, official records show.
Opposition supporters rallied outside state prosecutors’ headquarters in Yerevan on Thursday to protest against an arrest warrant issued for a prominent doctor accused of pressuring his subordinates to participate in the June 20 parliamentary elections.
A prominent surgeon running a hospital in Yerevan and supporting an Armenian opposition group was arrested again on Wednesday on charges of pressuring his subordinates to participate in the June 20 parliamentary elections.
Campaigning officially ended in Armenia on Friday for Sunday’s parliamentary elections which appear to be the most unpredictable in the country’s history.
A court in Yerevan on Wednesday convicted a nephew of former President Serzh Sarkisian of illegal arms possession and drug trafficking and sentenced him to five and a half years in prison.
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