A higher court in Armenia has granted an appeal by prosecutors seeking the re-arrest of a prominent surgeon who was charged with pressuring his subordinates to go to the polls in the June 20 parliamentary elections in which he participated as a candidate affiliated with an opposition alliance.
The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has drafted legislation aimed at “purging” Armenia’s courts, a controversial former prosecutor heading the state body said on Monday.
Vazgen Manukian, a veteran politician who led anti-government protests staged by the Armenian opposition this winter, went on trial on Tuesday, accused of calling for a violent overthrow of the constitutional order.
Armenian prosecutors are poised to ask courts to allow the confiscation of expensive properties and other assets of three former officials suspected of illegal enrichment.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party raised and spent more money during Armenia’s parliamentary election campaign than any of its opposition challengers, official records show.
Opposition supporters rallied outside state prosecutors’ headquarters in Yerevan on Thursday to protest against an arrest warrant issued for a prominent doctor accused of pressuring his subordinates to participate in the June 20 parliamentary elections.
A prominent surgeon running a hospital in Yerevan and supporting an Armenian opposition group was arrested again on Wednesday on charges of pressuring his subordinates to participate in the June 20 parliamentary elections.
Campaigning officially ended in Armenia on Friday for Sunday’s parliamentary elections which appear to be the most unpredictable in the country’s history.
A court in Yerevan on Wednesday convicted a nephew of former President Serzh Sarkisian of illegal arms possession and drug trafficking and sentenced him to five and a half years in prison.
In a ruling condemned by Armenia, a court in Azerbaijan sentenced a Lebanese-born Armenian national to 20 years in prison on Monday seven months after he was detained by Azerbaijani forces in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Two election candidates representing opposition groups led by former President Serzh Sarkisian and businessman Gagik Tsarukian have been arrested for allegedly distributing vote bribes.
Armenia’s human rights defender, Arman Tatoyan, has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and his political opponents of resorting to inflammatory rhetoric in their election campaigns, saying that could deepen a political crisis in the country.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has urged Armenians to hand his political party a landslide victory in the upcoming general elections, saying that it would usher in an “era of peaceful development” in their country.
Gagik Beglarian, a former government minister and Yerevan mayor facing corruption charges, was arrested late on Monday but released on bail hours later after returning to Armenia from Russia.
An Armenian court on Tuesday handed a life sentence to two Syrian men who were captured during last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A judge in Yerevan claimed on Tuesday that the Armenian authorities are trying to punish him for his refusal to sanction the arrest of a man accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenian prosecutors have ordered a criminal investigation into renewed allegations that President Armen Sarkissian is not eligible to serve as head of state because of his past British citizenship.
Prosecutors have appealed against an Armenian court’s decision to throw out coup charges brought against former President Robert Kocharian in connection with the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
A judge in Yerevan threw out on Tuesday coup charges against former President Robert Kocharian which Armenia’s Constitutional Court has declared unconstitutional.
Prosecutors have refused to drop coup charges against former President Robert Kocharian that have been declared unconstitutional by Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
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