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.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities brought more criminal charges against former Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian on Tuesday after moving to confiscate a large part of his big fortune.
Another member of Armenia’s parliament representing the ruling Civil Contract party has found himself in hot water after being accused of swearing at a female critic on social media.
The Armenian parliament has voted to appoint a candidate of the ruling Civil Contract party, who has served as a deputy prosecutor-general until now, as Armenia’s new human rights defender.
Russia formally banned on Wednesday imports of dairy products from Armenia amid rising tensions between the two allied countries.
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian on Tuesday condemned parliament speaker Alen Simonian in unusually strong terms for allegedly spitting at an opposition heckler and said he must be ousted.
Journalists and other media professionals disputed on Friday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s claims that he has consistently strengthened press freedom in Armenia during his five-year rule.
Armenian regulators have launched an inquiry into an insurance company belonging to the family of a government-linked businessman that recently won another government contract without a competitive tender.
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