An Armenian army officer has been arrested on charges of badly ill-treating one of his soldiers which carry up to five years in prison, military investigators said on Friday.
An Armenian army soldier has been hospitalized after being allegedly beaten up by one of his commanders, who had already been charged with mistreating another conscript, it emerged on Wednesday.
A court in Yerevan has thrown out an opposition lawsuit claiming that the Armenian authorities quashed opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian’s 2008 post-election demonstrations in violation of the country’s constitution and laws.
An opposition party in Armenia has downplayed its failure to press for a vote in parliament on a bill formally obliging Yerevan to recognize the independence of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
About two dozen companies made presentations of their packages to the broadcast regulatory authority on Thursday in an ongoing licensing tender for television frequencies in which Armenia’s closed TV is facing a rare competition.
A meeting between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to be hosted by their Russian counterpart later this, and focused on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, is “not unexpected”, said the Armenian president’s spokesman Armen Arzumanian on Monday.
The body of an Armenian captive who died under disputed circumstances in Azeri custody earlier this month has not yet been handed over to Armenia, according to a representative of an Armenian government committee dealing with prisoner affairs.
Armenia has confirmed that her nationals arrested in the United States last week on charges stemming from a large-scale medical insurance fraud will be tried overseas and by American law.
Authorities in Yerevan have brushed aside allegations made by opposition media that President Serzh Sarkisian has been in close relations with the purported ringleader of an American-Armenian criminal syndicate busted last week over a large-scale medical insurance fraud.
One officer and six soldiers have been arrested in connection with the latest non-combat death in the Armenian army ranks, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will not deal with the political situation in Armenia before next January, an Armenian opposition parliamentarian said on Tuesday.
In a surprise visit to Azerbaijan, two senior members of the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) are attending an international conference that began its work in Baku on Monday.
Grieving relatives of the Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani captivity this week joined official Yerevan on Thursday in insisting that he was a civilian, rather than a military serviceman sent to Azerbaijan on a sabotage mission.
Armenia accused Azerbaijan on Wednesday of murdering an Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani captivity in unclear circumstances the previous day.
An Armenian man detained in Azerbaijan in disputed circumstances last month has been found dead in his prison cell, military authorities in Baku said on Tuesday. (UPDATED)
Officials in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday again denied any connection between the upcoming international fact-finding mission to Armenian-controlled territories around Karabakh and the withdrawal of a pro-Azerbaijani draft resolution from the UN General Assembly.
Authorities in Yerevan on Thursday refused to allow the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) to hold its next major rally in the city’s central Liberty Square and again suggested another venue for the protest.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) rallied some 200 supporters in the town of Ashtarak on Wednesday in what the opposition party’s leadership described as the start of a nationwide campaign of anti-government protests.
Leaders of the two opposition parties represented in the Armenian parliament on Tuesday dismissed renewed media speculation about mounting tensions within the country’s ruling coalition.
The Armenian Apostolic Church confirmed on Monday that its supreme head, Catholicos Garegin II, has met President Serzh Sarkisian to discuss the return of the body of an Azerbaijani soldier killed in a June firefight in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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