A young opposition activist who was arrested and prosecuted after handing out opposition leaflets in Yerevan two months ago said on Monday that he will go on a hunger strike to demand his release from prison.
Voting started on Sunday morning in the first municipal elections in Yerevan in almost two decades that will determine the city’s next mayor and ascertain the current balance of forces in Armenian politics.
A leading Armenian media watchdog gave on Friday a largely positive assessment of television coverage of the ongoing mayoral election campaign in Yerevan.
Yet another witness in the ongoing trials of prominent Armenian opposition figures claimed on Tuesday to have been forced by police to support the official theory of last year’s post-election violence in Yerevan.
Parliament speaker Hovik Abrahamian strongly hinted on Monday that three of his opposition colleagues arrested following last year’s post-election clashes in Yerevan may be released from prison soon.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional on Friday a legal provision allowing electoral authorities to register new voters for this month’s mayoral elections in Yerevan and ignore strong opposition objections.
Samvel Babayan, a former military leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Thursday spoke out against the existing international plan to end the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and claimed that renewed war with Azerbaijan is a real possibility.
Armenia’s leadership remained tight-lipped on Friday about details of a potentially ground-breaking agreement with Turkey despite growing pressure from the domestic opposition concerned about its possible implications.
