In a ruling condemned by Armenia, a court in Azerbaijan sentenced a Lebanese-born Armenian national to 20 years in prison on Monday seven months after he was detained by Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Two election candidates representing opposition groups led by former President Serzh Sarkisian and businessman Gagik Tsarukian have been arrested for allegedly distributing vote bribes.
Armenia’s human rights defender, Arman Tatoyan, has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political opponents of resorting to inflammatory rhetoric in their election campaigns, saying that could deepen a political crisis in the country.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has urged Armenians to hand his political party a landslide victory in the upcoming general elections, saying that it would usher in an “era of peaceful development” in their country.
Gagik Beglarian, a former government minister and Yerevan mayor facing corruption charges, was arrested late on Monday but released on bail hours later after returning to Armenia from Russia.
An Armenian court on Tuesday handed a life sentence to two Syrian men who were captured during last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A judge in Yerevan claimed on Tuesday that the Armenian authorities are trying to punish him for his refusal to sanction the arrest of a man accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenian prosecutors have ordered a criminal investigation into renewed allegations that President Armen Sarkissian is not eligible to serve as head of state because of his past British citizenship.
Prosecutors have appealed against an Armenian court’s decision to throw out coup charges brought against former President Robert Kocharian in connection with the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
A judge in Yerevan threw out on Tuesday coup charges against former President Robert Kocharian which Armenia’s Constitutional Court has declared unconstitutional.
Prosecutors have refused to drop coup charges against former President Robert Kocharian that have been declared unconstitutional by Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
A senior prosecutor indicated on Thursday that Armenian law-enforcement authorities will likely wait until the end of this year before trying to confiscate assets of former officials suspected of illegal enrichment.
Lawyers for Robert Kocharian demanded on Tuesday that a Yerevan judge throw out coup charges against Armenia’s former president, arguing that the Constitutional Court has declared them unconstitutional.
The Armenian parliament on Friday voted to amend the current laws related to the judiciary to give more powers to the Supreme Justice Council.
Colonel-General Onik Gasparian has not been reinstated in his position as chief of the Armenian Armed Forces’ General Staff despite a court decision to accept his action against his dismissal, the Armenian premier’s office insisted on Thursday.
Four anti-government activists were arrested and indicted over the weekend for allegedly creating a social media account that regularly spreads offensive comments about Armenia’s leadership.
A prominent Nagorno-Karabakh politician and war veteran was released late on Wednesday two weeks after being arrested on charges of calling for a violent overthrow of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals rejected on Friday prosecutors’ appeal against a lower court’s decision to throw out controversial criminal charges brought against a judge who had released former President Robert Kocharian from prison.
The head of a state body overseeing Armenian courts backed on Friday a government proposal to hire new judges who would deal only with corruption cases or pre-trial arrests of criminal suspects.
Azerbaijan released on Thursday five more Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) in line with the Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh on November 10.
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