The Constitutional Court has refused to strike down a controversial law that made it a crime to insult Armenian officials and public figures.
Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian has ordered law-enforcement authorities to reinvigorate a controversial criminal investigation into businessman and opposition politician Gagik Tsarukian launched nearly two years ago.
Armenia’s Court of Cassation has absolved Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from all responsibility for the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan that left ten people dead.
The jailed mayor of the southeastern Armenian town of Goris and surrounding villages was set free but risked losing his post on Monday five months after his opposition bloc’s victory in a local election.
Opposition lawmakers have asked Armenia’s Constitutional Court to ban the government from initiating disciplinary proceedings against judges accused of misconduct or other abuses.
Hrayr Tovmasian, the former chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, has partially won a defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Many Armenians are desperate to flee Ukraine in the face of Russia’s continuing military assault, a leader of the local Armenian community said on Monday.
Armenia did not move to evacuate its citizens from Ukraine or tell them to leave the country on Thursday hours after a large-scale military attack launched by Russia.
Armenian prosecutors on Monday pledged to look into reports that former President Armen Sarkissian had failed to declare millions of dollars stashed in a Swiss bank.
A member of the armed anti-government group that seized an Armenian police base in 2016 has blamed his former leaders for his imprisonment, saying that they sacrificed him for the sake of their own freedom and interests.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have moved to arrest a judge just days after he ordered the release of yet another jailed opposition figure.
Armenian prosecutors have refused to validate corruption charges brought by another law-enforcement agency against fugitive former Environment Minister Aram Harutiunian.
Prosecutors have refused to give the green light to the trial of Vladimir Gasparian, a former chief of the Armenian police facing corruption charges, saying that a criminal investigation conducted by another law-enforcement agency was flawed.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) has reportedly dropped coup charges that were brought against its former director, Artur Vanetsian, and another prominent opposition figure one year ago.
An Armenian court has allowed law-enforcement authorities to arrest another soldier who was freed and repatriated by Azerbaijan earlier this month.
The Armenian government insisted on Friday that workers refusing vaccination will have to continue to take mandatory coronavirus tests despite a Constitutional Court ruling hailed by critics of the requirement.
Three members of the Armenian parliament representing the main opposition Hayastan alliance were released from custody on Friday one day after the country’s Constitutional Court effectively declared their arrests illegal.
The Constitutional Court has effectively ruled that the controversial arrests of three members of Armenia’s leading opposition group elected to the parliament in June were illegal.
A prominent war veteran highly critical of Armenia’s government was arrested on Wednesday one year after being charged with plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals has rejected prosecutors’ demands to overturn a lower court’s decision to throw out controversial coup charges that were brought against former President Robert Kocharian.
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