Raising more questions about corruption in Armenia, an independent investigative publication has suggested that parliament speaker Alen Simonian may be involved in the ongoing construction of an expensive residential complex.
An Armenian appeals court on Monday refused to order the release of Armen Ashotian, a prominent opposition politician arrested last month on what he and his Republican Party (HHK) call politically motivated charges.
Armenian prosecutors have issued an international arrest warrant for Vigen Sargsian, a U.S.-based former defense minister and opposition figure facing what he sees as politically motivated charges.
The Armenian parliament approved late on Tuesday a controversial government bill that will allow law-enforcement authorities not to press charges against individuals confessing to murders and other serious crimes.
Armenia’s Interior Ministry and national bar association agreed on Tuesday to set up a joint working group tasked with protecting lawyers against violent police actions.
Another well-known judge was ousted on Monday after accusing Armenia’s government and state judicial watchdog headed by a political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of seeking to control courts.
A former mayor of Vanadzor arrested in December 2021 after defeating Armenia’s ruling party in a local election continued to strongly deny corruption charges leveled against him during his yearlong trial on Thursday.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has suspended its criminal investigation into a former commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s army prosecuted for serious military setbacks suffered during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Another Armenian lawyer on Tuesday claimed to have been beaten up by police officers while representing a criminal suspect.
Lawyers representing Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday that the former Armenian presidents standing trial on corruption charges will not invoke the statute of limitations and will continue fight for their acquittal.
The two lead prosecutors in the marathon trial of former President Robert Kocharian have stepped down for unknown reasons.
A grief-stricken woman accused of attempting to “kidnap” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s son was moved to house arrest and again taken into custody a few hours later as she went on trial on Monday.
Facing a public uproar, Armenian law-enforcement authorities reversed on Friday their decision not to prosecute a senior police officer who beat up a teenage waiter at a hotel in the resort town of Dilijan.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have decided not to prosecute a senior police officer who beat up a teenage waiter at a hotel in the resort town of Dilijan.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have charged a fugitive former senior official of smuggling nearly one ton of cocaine confiscated by them earlier this month.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has decided to ask authorities in the United States to extradite a controversial Armenian video blogger charged with extortion, calls for violence and contempt of court.
A court in Yerevan sparked angry anti-government protests on Saturday when it approved the pre-trial detention of a woman accused of attempting to “kidnap” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s son.
A court in Yerevan has frozen assets of an Armenian newspaper and one of its journalists who has accused a leading political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of illicit enrichment.
An Armenian court on Wednesday acquitted a well-known opposition supporter of assaulting a police officer during last year’s anti-government protests in Yerevan.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman and opposition politician, went on trial on Monday almost three years after being prosecuted on charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
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