The Council of Europe launched on Tuesday a new program aimed at helping to reform Armenia’s judicial system that has long been strongly influenced by the government and law-enforcement bodies.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian said on Friday that his Zharangutyun (Heritage) party still hopes to prevent President Serzh Sarkisian from staying in power after his final presidential term ends in April.
More 180 Armenian lawyers went on strike on Wednesday to protest against controversial security checks on attorneys representing radical opposition members in three ongoing trials.
Several lawyers representing radical opposition activists who seized a police station in Yerevan last year again refused on Wednesday to undergo security checks in the high-profile trial of their clients.
A court in Yerevan on Monday refused to release Samvel Babayan, a retired army general linked to the Armenian opposition, from custody pending a verdict in his ongoing trial on controversial charges of illegal arms possession.
Armenia’s national bar association may take disciplinary action against two lawyers accused by law-enforcement authorities of misconduct relating to the ongoing trials of radical opposition leader Zhirayr Sefilian and his supporters.
One of the organizers of last summer’s rallies held in support of opposition gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan will likely go on trial soon on what he considers trumped-up and politically motivated charges.
The tense trial of Zhirayr Sefilian, a radical opposition figure, and six other men accused of plotting an armed revolt against the Armenian government continued on Tuesday in the absence of most defendants and their lawyers.
Armed members of an Armenian fringe opposition group broke the law when they seized a police station in Yerevan last summer, a leader of the opposition Yelk alliance insisted over the weekend.
A well-known civic activist accused Armenian law-enforcement authorities of attempting to fabricate criminal charges against him after spending about an hour in police custody on Wednesday.
Opposition leader Zaruhi Postanjian said on Monday that her Yerkir Tsirani party will take up its seats in Yerevan’s new municipal council despite rejecting as fraudulent the official results of local elections held on May 14.
Police in Yerevan on Sunday forcibly removed Zaruhi Postanjian, an opposition mayoral candidate, from a campaign office of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) which she accused of bribing voters.
Voters in Yerevan went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new municipal council that will appoint the Armenian capital’s mayor.
Zaruhi Postanjian, one of the two opposition candidates in the upcoming mayoral elections in Yerevan, on Friday urged voters to help her end Republican Party (HHK) rule in Armenia which she denounced as a “dictatorship.”
The Armenian Communist Party (HKK) blamed its poor showing in the recent parliamentary elections on fraud as it held a traditional May Day demonstration in Yerevan on Monday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have levelled new and more serious criminal charges against one of the organizers of last summer’s rallies held in support of gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) expressed confidence at the weekend that it will retain control over the Yerevan municipality as a result of next month’s mayoral elections.
Armenian-American rock musician Serj Tankian has condemned the pro-government directors of 30 schools and kindergartens in Armenia for suing a civic organization that exposed their highly controversial involvement in the ruling HHK party’s parliamentary election campaign.
Nikol Pashinian, a leader of the opposition Yelk alliance, will challenge Yerevan’s pro-government incumbent Mayor Taron Markarian in next month’s municipal elections, it was announced on Friday.
Opposition groups that have failed to win seats in Armenia’s new parliament on Monday condemned the authorities’ handling of the weekend elections but stopped short of calling for anti-government street protests.
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