A 71-year-old refugee from Nagorno-Karabakh stood trial in Armenia on Thursday for hurling an apple towards Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in protest.
Andranik Piloyan, a former Armenia minister of emergencies, was sentenced to five years in prison at the end of his corruption trial on Tuesday.
A senior judge reportedly enjoying government support has become the new chairman of a powerful body overseeing Armenia’s courts.
A powerful body overseeing Armenia’s courts has failed so far to replace its last chairman, Karen Andreasian, who resigned on November 18 at the behest of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A 34-year-old judge presiding over the fresh trial of former President Robert Kocharian admitted on Thursday that he was affiliated with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party before taking the bench five months ago.
After weeks of silence, law-enforcement authorities acknowledged on Wednesday that they have launched a criminal investigation into possible financial irregularities related to the launch of a first-ever Armenian satellite into space in May 2022.
Prosecutors on Tuesday did not confirm or deny a report that they are looking into the personal wealth of two former officials believed to have exerted strong influence on Armenian courts for the last two years.
An Armenian court on Friday convicted a former Nagorno-Karabakh official, who did not flee the region right after its recapture by Azerbaijan, of spying for Baku and sentenced him to 18 years in prison.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian praised Armenia’s “special” relationship with the Vatican as he was received by Pope Francis on Monday.
The Armenian police have reinstated one of their officers who was suspended after being caught on camera beating up an opposition parliamentarian during antigovernment protests in Yerevan in May.
Armenia’s judicial oversight body appears to have ignored a Constitutional Court ruling ordering it to reconsider the controversial sacking last year of a well-known judge who accused authorities of suppressing judicial independence.
Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has dismissed allegations that the head of another law-enforcement agency, Argishti Kyaramian, personally tortured four criminal suspects last year.
Video of police officers beating up an Armenian opposition parliamentarian during recent antigovernment protests in Yerevan is not sufficient grounds for prosecuting them, according to Prosecutor-General Anna Vardapetian.
Robert Kocharian, a former president leading Armenia’s largest opposition group, on Friday condemned as “legal hooliganism” his fresh trial which began late last month more than three years after his acquittal.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has again found himself in hot water after publicly insulting a Nagorno-Karabakh activist who berated him and other top state officials during an official ceremony late last week.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday gave the green light for parliamentary ratification of a recent agreement with Azerbaijan supposedly laying out the principles of delineating the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
Law-enforcement authorities have launched a corruption investigation into the municipal administration of Kapan more than two months after the southeastern Armenian town’s mayor gave a warm welcome to an outspoken archbishop seeking to oust Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
A court in Yerevan opened a fresh trial of Robert Kocharian on Monday despite the former Armenian president’s absence from the country and the fact that prosecutors have still not brought new charges against him and three other defendants.
Law-enforcement authorities announced on Wednesday the arrests of three persons accused of trying to set up an armed group to overthrow Armenia’s government.
The Armenian government has petitioned a state judicial watchdog to fire a judge who acquitted former President Serzh Sarkisian of corruption charges earlier this year.
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