Armenia’s highest court of criminal justice on Wednesday upheld a controversial prison that was given to opposition leader and newspaper editor Nikol Pashinian for his alleged role in the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
Armenia’s leading independent television station plans to resume broadcasts through the Internet more than eight years after being controversially pulled off the air by the authorities.
Armenia will not walk away from its historic agreements with Turkey for now and is only suspending their parliamentary ratification despite Ankara’s refusal to unconditionally normalize bilateral ties, President Serzh Sarkisian said late Thursday. (UPDATED)
A prominent Armenian photojournalist said on Wednesday that police have refused to press charges against a police officer who assaulted him recently and may prosecute him instead.
Gagik Tsarukian, a wealthy businessman leading Armenia’s second largest governing party, on Monday lambasted and branded as incompetent a government minister who stated recently that the economic crisis in the country is over.
The United States has again criticized the Armenian authorities’ human rights record, saying that they have continued to stifle dissent, manipulate elections, tolerate police brutality and restrict judicial independence over the past year.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld on Tuesday a seven-year prison sentence given to opposition leader and newspaper editor Nikol Pashinian for his alleged role in the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
An Armenian high court opened on Wednesday hearings on an appeal lodged by Nikol Pashinian, an opposition leader who was sentenced in January to seven years in prison for his alleged role in the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
After meeting with fierce resistance from lawmakers, the Armenian government has heavily watered down a controversial bill that would empower local self-government bodies to set and collect new taxes.
An affluent Armenian entrepreneur has linked his recent arrest over an alleged murder threat with the political views held by himself and his brother, a prominent businessman and former MP, who openly supported the opposition candidate in the disputed 2008 presidential election and currently faces criminal charges stemming from his alleged role in the post-election clashes.
Armenia’s police on Monday released prominent pro-opposition businessman Khachatur Sukiasian’s brother and one of his associates after they signed a written undertaking not to leave the city while the investigation into a murder threat claim made against them was in progress.
Police in Yerevan detained on Friday a brother of the prominent pro-opposition businessman Khachatur Sukiasian, saying that he is suspected of threatening to kill a fellow entrepreneur.
A Canadian-owned mining company has controversially laid off more than 50 of its employees after the latest strike at its ore-processing plant located in the southeastern town of Kapan.
Sasun Mikaelian, a prominent Armenian opposition figure jailed for his role in the 2008 post-election unrest, was said to remain in poor health on Wednesday just days after undergoing his second surgery in as many months.
Representatives of Armenia’s main pro-government and opposition forces gave on Monday differing assessments of the state human rights ombudsman Armen Harutiunian’s four-year track record in office.
The opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Tuesday denounced President Serzh Sarkisian’s policy on Turkey, saying that it has given Ankara a say in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and left Armenia under “unprecedented” international pressure to make more concessions to Azerbaijan.
Nikol Pashinian, a prominent opposition figure and newspaper editor, was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in prison on what he and his supporters call trumped-up charges stemming from the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
Armenia remains a “partly free” country with scant government respect for political and civil rights, a U.S. human rights watchdog said in its latest survey of freedom around the world.
The Constitutional Court upheld on Tuesday the legality of Armenia’s controversial normalization agreements with Turkey amid continuing protests staged by nationalist groups opposed to the deal. (UPDATED)
A pro-government candidate won a weekend by-election to Armenia’s parliament amid fraud allegations made by representatives of his arrested opposition challenger and some independent monitors.
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