A court in Yerevan has reversed its controversial decision to freeze the bank accounts and other assets of the independent daily “Hraparak” pending a ruling on a libel suit filed by former President Robert Kocharian.
In an effort to build on progress reportedly made by the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, international mediators began on Monday their second tour of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone in less than a month.
An Armenian government agency has ordered a small opposition party to vacate its state-owned head office in Yerevan which it has occupied since 1996.
The Armenian National Congress (HAK) has not yet decided whether it will again enter Yerevan’s Liberty Square during its next antigovernment rally this week, a leading member of the opposition alliance said on Monday.
Armenia’s new human rights ombudsman, Karen Andreasian, has decided to reorganize a “rapid-reaction” team in his office that has been tasked with investigating urgent complaints from opposition groups and ordinary citizens.
Gagik Tsarukian, the leader of Armenia’s second most important governing party also heading the National Olympic Committee, has pledged to ask President Serzh Sarkisian to show clemency to a former prominent boxer arrested following a recent opposition rally in Yerevan.
Major-General Nerses Nazarian, the chief of Yerevan’s police department, has been questioned by law-enforcement authorities in connection with a criminal investigation that has resulted in the arrest of another police general, it emerged on Friday.
The main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) on Wednesday insisted that “regime change” remains its supreme goal and pledged to step up pressure on President Serzh Sarkisian with further demonstrations in Yerevan.
Officials in the southern Armenian town of Armavir began on Tuesday recounting ballots cast in a weekend mayoral election that was marred by fraud allegations and sparked violent clashes between police and supporters of the main defeated candidate.
Public transport between Yerevan and other regions of Armenia was again effectively brought to a halt on Thursday ahead of a fresh rally held there by the main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK).
An Armenian opposition activist and former prominent boxer was formally remanded in custody on Tuesday pending trial on assault charges which he and his supporters say are politically motivated.
An opposition activist and prominent former boxer was arrested on Sunday on charges of assaulting police officers which he and Armenia’s largest opposition force condemned as politically motivated.
A senior official from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe urged the Armenian authorities on Thursday to add more human rights safeguards to national legislation on the due process of law.
Two high-ranking Armenian police officials have been dismissed because of their complicity in a murder cover-up, state prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The main opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) announced on Friday the start of a fresh campaign of rallies in Yerevan which it hopes will force Armenia’s leadership to hold snap presidential and parliamentary elections.
Four Armenian nationals were among hundreds of foreigners due to be evacuated by Russia from Libya on Wednesday, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said.
U.S. law-enforcement officials have not yet approached their colleagues in Armenia about last week’s high-profile arrests of more than 80 alleged members of an ethnic Armenian gang in California, officials in Yerevan said on Monday.
An international media watchdog criticized the Armenian authorities on Tuesday for maintaining a tight grip on the country’s broadcast media and accused them of routinely harassing local journalists challenging them.
Opposition-linked businessman Khachatur Sukiasian is not satisfied with a law-enforcement body’s decision to discontinue his prosecution and wants to be officially declared innocent, his lawyer said on Friday.
The U.S., Russian and French diplomats co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group met with Armenia’s leaders on Wednesday at the start of a fresh round of regional shuttle diplomacy aimed at brokering a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh.
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