The head of Armenia’s national bar association joined on Friday some of its members in criticizing a government bill that would allow judges to fine lawyers for contempt of court.
The U.S. Embassy in Yerevan said on Friday that it is cooperating with Armenian law-enforcement authorities in their criminal proceedings against a U.S. national accused of calling for and plotting terrorist attacks in Armenia.
The Armenian authorities have made some progress in their declared fight against widespread corruption among the country’s judges, an anti-graft arm of the Council of Europe said on Monday.
Several dozen market traders rallied outside the Armenian parliament on Tuesday to protest against new government rules that require them to pay more taxes.
A man accused of plotting, together with a radical opposition leader, an armed revolt against the Armenian government, has ended his latest hunger strike which he began more than three weeks ago in protest against his continuing detention.
A court in Yerevan on Friday refused to release from custody Zhirayr Sefilian, a radical opposition figure standing trial for allegedly plotting an armed revolt against the government.
Armenia’s parliament debated on Wednesday the ratification of a new agreement with Russia which is meant to boost a joint Russian-Armenian military force that was created more than a decade ago.
An Armenian judge ordered on Thursday a third separate trial stemming the armed attack on a police station in Yerevan that was carried out by a radical opposition group last year.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian insisted on Thursday that he did not order a controversial government initiative to step up the teaching of the Russian language in Armenia’s schools.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have pledged to investigate threats of violence reported by a lawyer representing one of the radical opposition members who seized a police station in Yerevan last year.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has brought more charges of corruption against a senior judge who was arrested two months ago, it emerged on Tuesday
Two of the arrested members of an armed opposition group that seized a police station in Yerevan last year have been on a hunger strike for more than two weeks.
Judicial authorities in Armenia have somewhat changed the rules for controversial security checks on defense lawyers which have contributed to tensions in the ongoing trials of radical opposition members accused of grave crimes.
Armenia’s French-managed water distribution network said on Thursday it will ask state utility regulators soon to allow another increase in the price of drinking water in the country.
Hundreds of Armenians have filed government-backed lawsuits in the European Court of Human Rights accusing Azerbaijan of beheading Armenian soldiers and committing other atrocities during last year’s heavy fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh.
The trial of the key members of an armed opposition that seized a police station in Yerevan last year remained effectively paralyzed on Wednesday by continuing wrangling between the presiding judge and defense lawyers.
Tensions continued to run high on Thursday at the trial of 18 men who seized a police station in Yerevan last year, with several defense lawyers walking out of the courtroom to protest against the absence of their clients.
Deputy Justice Minister Suren Krmoyan on Tuesday dismissed concerns voiced by the New York-based group Human Rights Watch about the alleged ill-treatment of four arrested members of an armed Armenian opposition group during their ongoing trial.
The New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for a “prompt, thorough, and effective” investigation into reports that four arrested members of an armed Armenian opposition group were beaten up during their ongoing trial in Yerevan.
Five arrested members of an armed Armenian opposition claimed to have been brutally attacked by police on Wednesday immediately after the latest court hearing in their ongoing trial in Yerevan.
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