The Armenian police have reinstated one of their officers who was suspended after being caught on camera beating up an opposition parliamentarian during antigovernment protests in Yerevan in May.
Armenia’s judicial oversight body appears to have ignored a Constitutional Court ruling ordering it to reconsider the controversial sacking last year of a well-known judge who accused authorities of suppressing judicial independence.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has dismissed allegations that the head of another law-enforcement agency, Argishti Kyaramian, personally tortured four criminal suspects last year.
Video of police officers beating up an Armenian opposition parliamentarian during recent antigovernment protests in Yerevan is not sufficient grounds for prosecuting them, according to Prosecutor-General Anna Vardapetian.
Robert Kocharian, a former president leading Armenia’s largest opposition group, on Friday condemned as “legal hooliganism” his fresh trial which began late last month more than three years after his acquittal.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has again found himself in hot water after publicly insulting a Nagorno-Karabakh activist who berated him and other top state officials during an official ceremony late last week.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday gave the green light for parliamentary ratification of a recent agreement with Azerbaijan supposedly laying out the principles of delineating the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Law-enforcement authorities have launched a corruption investigation into the municipal administration of Kapan more than two months after the southeastern Armenian town’s mayor gave a warm welcome to an outspoken archbishop seeking to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A court in Yerevan opened a fresh trial of Robert Kocharian on Monday despite the former Armenian president’s absence from the country and the fact that prosecutors have still not brought new charges against him and three other defendants.
Law-enforcement authorities announced on Wednesday the arrests of three persons accused of trying to set up an armed group to overthrow Armenia’s government.
The Armenian government has petitioned a state judicial watchdog to fire a judge who acquitted former President Serzh Sarkisian of corruption charges earlier this year.
Armenia’s Office of the Prosecutor-General said on Tuesday that it has appealed against a Yerevan court’s decision to acquit former President Serzh Sarkisian of corruption charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Armenia’s Court of Cassation has ordered a new trial of former President Robert Kocharian more than three years after he was acquitted of coup charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Law-enforcement authorities have not prosecuted any of the police officers who injured dozens of anti-government protesters in Yerevan three months ago in a crackdown condemned by Armenia’s leading civic groups.
The mayor of the southeastern Armenian town of Goris, who has challenged Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in the past, was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Tuesday for defying an earlier court ruling that barred him from holding public office.
Armenia’s jailed former Defense Minister David Tonoyan has been granted bail of 15 million drams (over $38,000), according to a ruling by a court in Yerevan.
Prosecutors in Armenia have brought a new criminal case against Mikayel Minasian, the once influential fugitive son-in-law of former President Serzh Sarkisian, on multiple charges, including large-scale embezzlement.
Prosecutors in Armenia have demanded seven years in prison for a Constitutional Court judge charged with abuse of official powers related to alleged real estate fraud.
A Western-funded division of the Armenian police faced fresh torture allegations on Friday after arresting a man accused of illegally parking his car in Yerevan.
More than three years after declaring coup charges brought against Robert Kocharian unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court has given the green light for another trial of Armenia’s former president sought by prosecutors.
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