Ignoring his protestations of innocence, a court in Armenia on Monday sentenced a police officer to eight years in prison on charges stemming from the death of a man in police custody.
More than a dozen private houses burned down on Wednesday night and early on Thursday in what government officials described as Yerevan’s worst fire in years.
The editors of about a dozen Armenian newspapers and online news agencies demanded on Thursday the release of fellow journalist and opposition leader Nikol Pashinian who was controversially jailed in connection with the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
A pro-government lawmaker accused the Armenian parliament’s Audit Chamber on Wednesday of demanding a kickback from a private university connected with him.
President Serzh Sarkisian’s chief of staff lambasted the management of Armenia’s largest chemical enterprise on Friday amid continuing street protests by its workers demanding the payment of their back wages for the past four months.
Armenia’s state human rights ombudsman, Armen Harutiunian, played down on Wednesday harsh criticism of his activities voiced by opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian.
Four Armenian opposition activists were detained on Tuesday after clashing with police during an anti-government protest in Yerevan. All of them were set free several hours later.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) claimed on Friday that President Serzh Sarkisian is facing mounting popular anger and international pressure and will soon cave in to opposition demands for snap national elections.
Prosecutors in Armenia are seeking an eight-year prison sentence for a police officer standing trial for ill-treating a young man who died in police custody in still unclear circumstances.
The second most important party in Armenia’s governing coalition on Monday chose its deputy chairman to serve as one of the two deputy speakers of the National Assembly.
Ending a fact-finding visit to Armenia, officials from the United Nations Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that they heard numerous allegations of police torture from individuals kept in local prisons.
The victory of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in a weekend constitutional referendum bodes well for a renewed Turkish-Armenian rapprochement, analysts in Yerevan said on Monday.
Armenia’s largest opposition force underlined its cautious strategy of political struggle on Friday when it decided not to defy a government ban and hold its next rally in Yerevan’s historic Liberty Square.
The administration of a Yerevan-based French-Armenian university defended on Tuesday the legality of recent mass sackings of its Armenian employees.
A senior Nagorno-Karabakh official on Wednesday downplayed the U.S. State Department’s apparent failure to deliver much of direct U.S. economic and humanitarian assistance to the disputed region that has been allocated by Congress.
Some three dozen Armenian academics have asked a Yerevan court to overturn their recent dismissal from the French University in Armenia which they consider unfair and illegal, it emerged on Monday.
Two former high-ranking officials of the Armenian Ministry of Environment Protection received lengthy prison sentences on Friday more than seven months after their arrest on corruption charges.
Two former high-ranking officials from the Armenian Ministry of Environment Protection arrested on bribery charges last December denied any wrongdoing as they faced lengthy prison sentences during their trial in Yerevan on Thursday.
Amid continuing allegations of a cover-up, the Armenian military announced on Wednesday the arrests of four servicemen in connection with last week’s suspicious death of a junior army officer.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) decided on Wednesday to rally supporters in Yerevan on September 17 for what some of its leaders say will be the start of a new push for leadership change in the country.
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