A court in Yerevan on Wednesday rejected fresh demands for former President Robert Kocharian’s release from prison which were backed by three former Armenian prime ministers.
Armenia’s human rights ombudsman, Arman Tatoyan, expressed serious concern on Monday about growing hate speech on social media, saying that it has reached alarming proportions in the country.
A court in Yerevan allowed law-enforcement bodies on Sunday to arrest a wealthy businessman and son of Armenia’s arrested former Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian who has accused the government of seeking to illegally dispossess his family.
Armenia’s jailed former President Robert Kocharian was on Tuesday taken to a hospital in Yerevan where he underwent surgery in October.
As the spread of coronavirus in Armenia continued unabated on Sunday Health Minister Arsen Torosian warned that the authorities may soon be unable to hospitalize or isolate most infected people.
The top manager of companies belonging to Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian was remanded in custody on Saturday after law-enforcement authorities brought fresh criminal charges against him.
Lawyers for former President Robert Kocharian have renewed their demands for his release from custody, saying that he risks being infected with coronavirus.
Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian on Thursday insisted that Russian natural gas has never been as cheap for Armenia as was claimed by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and that Yerevan is right to seek a reduction in its current price.
Health Minister Arsen Torosian called for “additional efforts” to slow the spread of coronavirus in Armenia on Tuesday after authorities reported the highest daily increase in infections in more than two weeks.
Judicial reforms launched by the Armenian government are a far cry from a mandatory “vetting” of all judges demanded by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian last year, the head of a state anti-corruption watchdog said on Tuesday.
A law-enforcement agency has brought more criminal charges against the top manager of companies belonging to Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik Tsarukian.
Armenian authorities have started accessing and using personal data from people’s mobile phones to fight against the coronavirus epidemic, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Robert Kocharian, Armenia’s former president standing trial on coup charges, was taken back to prison on Friday after spending more than three weeks in hospital.
The Armenian government continued to defend on Wednesday its controversial decision to use personal data from people’s mobile phones to fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
Authorities suspended public transport in Yerevan and set up roadblocks across Armenia on Wednesday as they stepped up their efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Armenian parliamentarians on Friday voted unanimously in favor of amendments envisaging administrative and criminal liability for violating the requirements of isolation and self-isolation during epidemic-conditioned national emergencies as well as for spreading “panic-mongering” information.
Police in Armenia are investigating allegations by a young man who claims to have been attacked for his joke on social media about a woman blamed for spreading the new coronavirus in a western Armenian town.
A former senior investigator wanted in Armenia as part of a probe into the 2008 crackdown on the opposition has been released after a brief arrest in Russia, his lawyer Mihran Poghosian said.
A former senior investigator wanted in Armenia as part of a probe into the 2008 crackdown on the opposition has been arrested in Russia, according to the Armenian prosecutor-general’s adviser.
Citing the statute of limitations, investigators have dropped a corruption case against a former mayor of Yerevan accused of illegally privatizing municipal land at a knockdown price.
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