The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) confirmed on Tuesday that its two senior members monitoring the political situation in Armenia have criticized the results of an Armenian parliamentary inquiry into last year’s deadly post-election violence in Yerevan.
Council of Europe officials monitoring the political situation in Armenia have criticized an Armenian parliamentary report that defended the use of deadly force against opposition protesters after last year’s disputed presidential election, a senior lawmaker in Yerevan said on Monday.
The Council of Europe has become more indifferent to human rights abuses in Armenia lately because of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Western-backed policies on Turkey and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Friday.
An opposition party affiliated with the Armenian National Congress (HAK) has been effectively split by a bitter leadership battle between two rival factions keen to oust each other from the party ranks.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) will launch early next month a new campaign of street protests aimed at scuttling the implementation of the recently signed Turkish-Armenian agreements, a leader of the opposition party said on Monday.
Armenia on Thursday explicitly threatened to walk away from its landmark agreements with Turkey if Ankara continues to make their implementation conditional on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Armenia’s leading businessmen have all but stopped funding a pan-Armenian charity that has been implementing large-scale infrastructure projects in Nagorno-Karabakh, it emerged on Wednesday.
Authorities in Armenia have allowed Nikol Pashinian, a prominent opposition leader and newspaper editor, to stand in an upcoming parliamentary by-election while being under arrest and on trial on charges stemming from last year’s post-election violence in Yerevan.
President Serzh Sarkisian has consented to returning Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan in exchange for international support for his illegitimate rule, the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) said on Friday.
A leading Yerevan-based analyst on Thursday strongly criticized Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and downplayed Azerbaijan’s seeming acceptance of peoples’ right to self-determination as a core principle of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The chief of Armenia’s largest prison has stepped down amid an ongoing criminal investigation into the brazen escape of two men who served life sentences there for murder, law-enforcement sources said on Wednesday.
The All-Armenian Fund Hayastan said on Friday that it has received almost $16 million in donations pledges from Armenians around the world to rebuild the war-ravaged Nagorno-Karabakh town of Shushi during an annual fundraising campaign.
President Serzh Sarkisian has formally asked Armenia’s Constitutional Court to certify the legality of his controversial normalization agreements with Turkey, a court official said at the weekend.
The European Court of Human Rights has thrown out an appeal from an Armenian scholar and former diplomat serving a ten-year prison sentence given to him for alleged espionage in favor of Turkey, it emerged on Friday.
Armenia’s Administrative Court on Friday ordered police to issue Nikol Pashinian, a jailed opposition leader and newspaper editor, with a document that will allow him to contest a forthcoming parliamentary by-election.
A junior partner in Armenia’s governing coalition reaffirmed on Thursday its threats to walk out of Yerevan’s municipal council if its pro-presidential majority and Mayor Gagik Beglarian continue to run the city “single-handedly.”
Labor and Social Affairs Minister Gevorg Petrosian has stepped down under pressure from his Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) which considers his six-month tenure to have been a failure.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian is ready, in principle, to cooperate with President Serzh Sarkisian, a leading member of his Armenian National Congress (HAK) confirmed on Tuesday.
A court in Yerevan ordered a leading pro-opposition newspaper on Monday to repay 2.6 million drams ($6,750) in what it described as publishing debts or face closure.
Two small groups aligned with the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) took issue on Friday with its top leader Levon Ter-Petrosian’s harsh attacks on nationalist critics of Armenia’s rapprochement with Turkey.
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