Justice Minister Arpine Hovannisian disagreed on Tuesday with criticism of the Armenian government’s main anti-corruption body which has been voiced by the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, Richard Mills.
One of several men accused of plotting, together with a radical opposition leader, an armed revolt against the Armenian government has been on a hunger strike for the past two weeks, demanding his release from prison.
Twenty-six Armenian police officers have been sacked this year for violating human rights and committing other abuses, a senior police official revealed on Friday.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers met in Hamburg late on Thursday for fresh talks on Nagorno-Karabakh mediated by the U.S., Russian and French co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Armenia’s Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobian expressed hope on Thursday that Syrian government troops will soon capture all districts of Aleppo remaining under rebel control.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday handed down two more rulings against Armenia stemming from what it considers deeply flawed investigations conducted by Armenian law-enforcement authorities.
A second arrested member of the armed opposition group which seized a police station in Yerevan in July has been charged with murdering a police officer, his lawyer revealed on Wednesday.
One of the opposition gunmen who seized a police station in Yerevan in July has been charged with killing a police officer during their two-week standoff with Armenian security forces, it emerged on Tuesday.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals opened hearings Thursday on a lower court verdict in the trial of a Russian soldier who was convicted of murdering an Armenian family of seven in Gyumri.
The Armenian government announced on Tuesday plans to introduce a special tax that will finance new and much heftier benefits for the families of military personnel killed or seriously wounded in action.
Many of the ethnic Armenians remaining in Aleppo want to leave Syria but are unable to do so for financial reasons, according to yet another local family that arrived in Armenia on Wednesday.
Armenia’s government is not considering trying to evacuate ethnic Armenians from Aleppo despite the worsening security situation in the war-ravaged Syrian city, the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan said on Monday.
An Armenian election-monitoring organization said on Monday that its members witnessed and documented 134 irregularities during nationwide local elections held over the weekend.
A higher court in Armenia has rejected more appeals filed by some of the three dozen members of an armed group that seized and held for two weeks a police station in Yerevan last month, to have a general-jurisdiction court’s decisions on their pretrial detention revoked.
Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday visited a citizen of Armenia who, under yet unclear circumstances, reportedly crossed the border into Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhijevan earlier this month and was apprehended by local border guards.
Armenia’s law-enforcement authorities have published the list of the types of stun grenades and other “special means” of crowd control that were used in dispersing public protests during the recent standoff over a seized police station in Yerevan, insisting that all of the relevant non-lethal devices can be used “legitimately” under an order of the health minister.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Friday claimed to have found a cache of ammunition and explosive materials in a Yerevan apartment, saying that it may be connected with opposition gunmen that seized a police compound last month.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have released one of the gunmen that surrendered to them on Sunday two weeks after launching a deadly attack on a police station in Yerevan.
The Armenian police said on Wednesday that they have been ordered to identify “civilians” that beat up journalists and protesters during the violent dispersal of a demonstration held last week in support of gunmen barricaded inside a Yerevan police compound.
A total of 47 people have been arrested in connection with the armed attack on a police compound in Yerevan carried out by members of a radical opposition group, Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said on Monday.
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