Five Armenian police officers were suspended on Friday for using excessive force against participants of opposition demonstrations held late last month in support of gunmen that seized a police station in Yerevan.
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinian on Thursday hit out at armed opposition members that seized a police compound in Yerevan, saying that they were ready to cut compromise deals with President Serzh Sarkisian during their two-week standoff with security forces.
Two of the Armenian journalists seriously injured last week during a violent dispersal of an opposition demonstration in Yerevan dismissed on Tuesday President Serzh Sarkisian’s request to “forget about” the violence.
The Armenian police said on Saturday that one of their officers has been shot dead in a continuing standoff with opposition gunmen holed up in a police compound in Yerevan.
Riot police clashed late on Friday with hundreds of people near a police compound in Yerevan occupied by gunmen affiliated with an Armenian opposition group.
Law-enforcement authorities have arrested another organizer of daily demonstrations held in Yerevan in support of armed members of an Armenian opposition group holed up in a police station.
The armed members of an opposition group holed up in a police station Yerevan may well avoid imprisonment if they surrender to law-enforcement authorities, Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said on Monday.
More than 200 radical opposition supporters fought pitched battles with riot police in Yerevan late on Wednesday as they attempted to approach a police station occupied by gunmen seeking to topple Armenia’s government.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities said on Wednesday that they have no plans yet to storm a police station in Yerevan three days after it was seized by gunmen affiliated with a hardline opposition group.
The Armenian government has made a new proposal to gunmen holding four police officers hostage at a police station in Yerevan, a member of their radical opposition group said on Tuesday.
The Armenian authorities on Sunday warned gunmen that seized a police station in Yerevan to surrender themselves and rejected their demands to free the leader of their radical opposition group arrested last month.
One police officer was killed and two others wounded early on Sunday when members of an Armenian radical opposition group seized a police station in Yerevan, demanding the release of its leader arrested last month for allegedly plotting an armed revolt.
Zhirayr Sefilian, an arrested opposition figure facing coup charges, strongly denied through a lawyer on Tuesday that he plotted an armed revolt against the Armenian government.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities arrested Zhirayr Sefilian, a radical opposition leader, on Monday, saying that he plotted to overthrow the government through an armed revolt. (UPDATED)
The government will amend Armenia’s new Electoral Code in a bid address serious concerns voiced by Armenian opposition groups and European experts, Justice Minister Arpine Hovannisian said on Tuesday.
A U.S.-Armenian joint venture has begun long-awaited sales of first-ever smartphones designed and assembled in Armenia.
In a move stemming from the decreased cost of Russian natural gas supplied to Armenia, state utility regulators approved on Tuesday a 6 percent reduction in the retail gas price for Armenian households and small businesses.
The emergence of an independent judiciary widely trusted by citizens is vital for the democratization of Armenia’s political system, the head of the European Union Delegation in Yerevan, Piotr Switalski, said on Monday.
Armenia’s government has denied claims by Samvel Babayan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s former top military commander, that it did not sufficiently reinforce the Armenian military in the years leading up to last month’s heavy fighting with Azerbaijani troops.
A senior official from the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged the Armenian government to make good on its latest pledge to step up the fight against corruption and significantly improve the domestic investment climate.
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