The Armenian police continue to ill-treat criminal suspects to extract confessions or other testimony from them despite police reforms declared by the government, a civic activist claimed on Tuesday.
Two Armenian lawyers on Friday claimed to have been beaten up by police officers while representing a juvenile criminal suspect.
Schools and colleges in Nagorno-Karabakh were shut down on Thursday one day after Azerbaijan again blocked Armenia’s natural gas supplies to the region cut off from the outside world for more than a month.
The Armenian Apostolic Church on Friday expressed solidarity for Nagorno-Karabakh and urged its embattled residents to “remain firm” in the face of the continuing Azerbaijani blockade of the region’s land link with Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian accused Azerbaijan of planning “genocide” in Nagorno-Karabakh and urged Russian peacekeepers to restore its sole transport link with Armenia again blocked on Monday.
Armenia needs a new government and a new leader negotiating with Azerbaijan to end the current “defeatist policies,” an opposition leader said on Thursday.
Armenia’s main opposition groups will rally supporters in Yerevan on Saturday for the first time in two months to try to keep Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from making major concessions to Azerbaijan.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, praised wide-ranging safety measures taken at the Metsamor nuclear plant in recent years during a visit to Armenia which he concluded on Wednesday.
Armenia on Monday accused Azerbaijan of reneging on a pledge to release 17 Armenian soldiers taken prisoner last month during two days of heavy fighting on the border between the two countries.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias condemned Azerbaijan’s recent military operations at the border with Armenia and also blamed Turkey for the dramatic escalation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict as he visited Yerevan on Tuesday.
A group of foreign ambassadors and other diplomats visited on Friday the largest of the Armenian border settlements shelled by the Azerbaijani army during this week’s deadly clashes with Armenian forces.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency brought additional criminal charges against a former commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s army on Thursday hours after a court in Yerevan allowed his pre-trial arrest.
An opposition figure prosecuted on what he sees as politically motivated charges was expected to be set free on Wednesday night after Armenia’s Court of Appeals agreed to grant him bail.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities on Friday made their first arrests in a criminal investigation into the August 14 explosion at a market in Yerevan that left at least 16 people dead and dozens of others injured.
Mirroring a global trend, coronavirus infections in Armenia are rising rapidly again after falling to record low levels in May, government data shows.
Armenia’s parliament controlled by the ruling Civil Contract party voted on Friday to dismiss one of its deputy speakers and the chairman of its economic committee affiliated with the main opposition Hayastan bloc.
The National Assembly voted on Wednesday to appoint an aide to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian as Armenia’s next chief prosecutor.
Armenia’s Defense Ministry has declined so far to shed light on the latest death of an Armenian soldier guarding the border with Azerbaijan.
The nominal head of Armenia’s judicial watchdog controversially suspended last year publicized on Monday an audio recording which he believes corroborates his claims that the government warned him to resign or face criminal charges.
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament affiliated with the ruling Civil Contract party has still not carried out its threats to strip opposition lawmakers boycotting parliament sessions of their seats.
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