A third court hearing in the trial of radical opposition members who seized a police station in Yerevan last year lasted for only several minutes amid chaotic scenes on Wednesday.
An Armenian opposition activist was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on Tuesday for his alleged role in last year’s clashes between riot police and supporters of gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
The leader of an armed Armenian opposition group that seized a police station in Yerevan last year may face more criminal charges after calling for President Serzh Sarkisian’s “physical destruction” at his ongoing trial.
Fourteen members of a radical opposition group went on trial on Thursday almost one year after most of them seized, together with two dozen other men, a police base in Yerevan in what they called an uprising against Armenia’s government.
Two more Armenian judges as well as one prosecutor have been accused of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes in return for making illegal decisions on two court cases in the country’s Gegharkunik province.
The Armenian Ministry of Health has called for a legal ban on smoking in public places and a sharp rise in the prices of cigarettes, citing the need to reduce the large number of smokers in Armenia.
A trial of Zhirayr Sefilian began in Yerevan on Friday almost one year after the radical opposition figure was arrested on charges of plotting an armed revolt against the Armenian government.
A prominent Karabakh war veteran who was released from prison under an amnesty act having served more than half of his controversial six-year term resumed his protest in front of the Armenian government, deploring fraudulent elections and demanding social justice to thousands of people like him.
Armenia’s ruling party believes the Sunday mayoral elections in Yerevan were a “serious step forward” as compared to the previous municipal vote held in the capital four years ago.
The opposition Yelk alliance promised on Monday that residents of Yerevan refusing to take vote bribes from the ruling Republican Party (HHK) will receive greater financial rewards if it wins Sunday’s municipal elections.
Campaigning for reelection, Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian promised on Thursday to radically revamp the city’s outdated system of public transportation, a source of growing complaints from commuters and opposition allegations of government corruption.
Tens of thousands of people marched to the Tsitsernakabert memorial in Yerevan on Monday to mark the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
Armenians began voting on Sunday morning in parliamentary elections which President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) hopes will extend its more than decade-long rule.
Hundreds of people took part on Wednesday in the funeral of Artur Sargsian, an Armenian activist who died last week while being prosecuted on charges of aiding opposition gunmen last summer.
Foreign forensic experts can participate in the ongoing inquiry into the death of an Armenian activist who was charged with aiding opposition gunmen las summer, the Investigative Committee said on Monday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities indicated on Friday that they might prosecute doctors in connection with the death of a man who was arrested last year after delivering food to opposition gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
A man who delivered food last summer to anti-government gunmen occupying a police compound in Yerevan died on Thursday ten days after being released from prison following a 25-day hunger strike.
The number of people held in Armenia’s prisons has risen by 38 percent over the past decade, bucking trends in most European countries, the Council of Europe said in a report released on Tuesday.
A man accused of aiding anti-government gunmen who seized a police compound in Yerevan last year was again released from custody on Monday following a 25-day hunger strike.
A man accused of aiding anti-government gunmen who seized a police compound in Yerevan last year remains on hunger strike which he began three weeks ago immediately after being again arrested by law-enforcement authorities.
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