Aghvan Hovsepian, Armenia’s influential prosecutor-general, resigned on Friday after 15 years in office that have been marked by allegations of serious human rights violations made by opposition and civic groups.
The Armenian police said on Wednesday that they have still not launched formal criminal proceedings in connection with last week’s assault on two prominent civil society activists which was strongly condemned by local and international human rights groups.
Riot police clashed with about 100 angry activists and detained a dozen of them on Wednesday during an unsanctioned demonstration in Yerevan against Armenia’s accession to a Russian-led customs union.
The lawyer for the arrested son of Suren Khachatrian, a controversial former governor of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province, has demanded that law-enforcement authorities drop murder charges leveled against his client.
Acting on a petition from the Armenian branch of Transparency International, a state anti-corruption body launched on Wednesday a formal inquiry into the legality of millions of dollars worth of assets declared by Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian.
Armenia is worried about large-scale sales of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan and is trying to counter them with its own military buildup, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Friday.
Armenia offered to free an Azerbaijani prisoner of war on Thursday as it continued trying to secure the release of an Armenian soldier who was captured by Azerbaijani troops near Nagorno-Karabakh last week.
Azerbaijan has paraded on national television an Armenian soldier who was captured by its troops near Nagorno-Karabakh last week, sparking strong condemnation from his relatives and official Yerevan.
Azerbaijan has expressed readiness to free an Armenian soldier who crossed the “line of contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh and was taken prisoner by Azerbaijani forces last week.
The Armenian police withdrew on Thursday a controversial bill that would ban any public promotion of "non-traditional sexual relationships" in the country just days after circulating it through the Internet.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Wednesday that it will not nominate a controversial former regional governor widely blamed for a recent fatal shooting as a candidate in an upcoming parliamentary by-election.
An officer of Nagorno-Karabakh’s armed forces has been arrested on charges of ill-treating one of his soldiers who was found dead last week, military investigators said on Tuesday.
The opposition Zharangutyun (Heritage) party of Raffi Hovannisian called on Armenia’s leading opposition and civic groups on Friday to join forces for a new effort to bring down President Serzh Sarkisian’s administration.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals upheld on Thursday controversial guilty verdicts stemming from the 2010 death of a soldier which heightened public awareness of violent crimes committed in the Armenian army.
Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian on Tuesday ruled out through a spokesman the dismissal of two senior municipal officials which is demanded by youth activists holding non-stop demonstrations outside his office.
More than a dozen local officials in a big village near Yerevan stepped down on Monday in protest against the controversially elected successor of its mayor assassinated in April.
The owners of private companies operating Yerevan’s public transport system on Wednesday strongly defended the municipal government’s controversial decision to sharply raise fares in the capital, saying that it will save them from financial ruin.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) denounced on Tuesday the conduct of a weekend local election that put an end to its almost decade-long control of a major rural community near Yerevan.
A member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) was declared the winner of a weekend local election in a big village just outside Yerevan which was held three months after the killing of its mayor affiliated with a major opposition party.
Law-enforcement bodies have still not solved the recent killing of a village mayor affiliated with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) not least because eyewitnesses are too scared to come forward, a leader of the opposition party said on Friday.
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