The Armenian military will retaliate against Azerbaijan for the latest killing of an Armenian soldier on “the line contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Wednesday.
Relatives of opposition protesters killed in the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan on Tuesday decried former President Robert Kocharian’s perceived plans to return to the political arena and warned opposition groups against cooperating with him.
Shant Harutiunian ended a more than two-week hunger strike on Friday amid fresh street protests by his supporters demanding the immediate release of the opposition activist and 13 other men arrested during last November’s clashes with riot police.
Shant Harutiunian, the arrested leader of anti-government protesters who clashed with riot police in Yerevan in November, was hospitalized Thursday on the 16th day of his continuing hunger strike.
An opposition activist who has spent more than two years in jail said on Wednesday that he will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against his controversial imprisonment by Armenian law-enforcement authorities.
A leader of the pro-government majority in Armenian’s dismissed on Tuesday opposition claims that it failed to ratify a controversial agreement signed by the Armenian government with Russia’s Gazprom gas monopoly.
The European Court of Human Rights is looking into an appeal lodged by a prominent Armenian opposition figure who was among dozens of people controversially imprisoned following the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
Two leading Armenian opposition parties denounced on Wednesday what they see as secret negotiations held by the government on Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Customs Union.
The Armenian police on Thursday defended the use of force against hundreds of people who demonstrated against Armenia’s membership in a Russian-led customs union during an official visit by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
President Serzh Sarkisian’s plans to set up a new and powerful law-enforcement agency have nothing to do with Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Customs Union, a senior official insisted on Wednesday.
At least 110 people were detained in Yerevan on Monday as riot police clashed with hundreds of anti-government activists protesting against Russia’s visiting President Vladimir Putin and Armenia’s plans to join a Russian-led customs union.
Opposition parties in Armenia appear to have different approaches to calls by activists for staging protests during next week’s visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Armenia’s law-enforcement stands ready for possible protests during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to the country, Police Chief Vladimir Gasparian said on Tuesday.
A veteran political activist who led anti-government protesters clashing with riot police in Yerevan earlier this month has been forcibly transferred from a prison to a psychiatric hospital to undergo mental health tests.
Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) accused the authorities of foul play on Monday after its candidate was narrowly defeated in a weekend mayoral election held in the southern town of Ararat.
Two dozen Armenian anti-government protesters remained in custody and risked criminal charges on Wednesday one day after clashing with riot police in Yerevan.
Hundreds supporters of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) marched to the presidential palace in Yerevan on Tuesday to protest against law-enforcement authorities’ perceived failure to solve the murder of a village mayor affiliated with the opposition party.
Tigran Arakelian, a leader of the youth wing of the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), has declared that he will not benefit from the general amnesty act after an appeals court again refused to consider his petition for a release on bail on Wednesday.
Ignoring calls by more than 100 politicians and prominent public figures, Armenia’s Court of Appeals refused on Wednesday to release on bail an opposition activist who has been kept in prison on controversial charges for the past two years.
The Armenian police said on Monday that they have identified first suspects in a recent series of violent attacks on civil society activists critical of the government.
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