A senior prosecutor indicated on Thursday that Armenian law-enforcement authorities will likely wait until the end of this year before trying to confiscate assets of former officials suspected of illegal enrichment.
Lawyers for Robert Kocharian demanded on Tuesday that a Yerevan judge throw out coup charges against Armenia’s former president, arguing that the Constitutional Court has declared them unconstitutional.
The Armenian parliament on Friday voted to amend the current laws related to the judiciary to give more powers to the Supreme Justice Council.
Colonel-General Onik Gasparian has not been reinstated in his position as chief of the Armenian Armed Forces’ General Staff despite a court decision to accept his action against his dismissal, the Armenian premier’s office insisted on Thursday.
Four anti-government activists were arrested and indicted over the weekend for allegedly creating a social media account that regularly spreads offensive comments about Armenia’s leadership.
A prominent Nagorno-Karabakh politician and war veteran was released late on Wednesday two weeks after being arrested on charges of calling for a violent overthrow of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals rejected on Friday prosecutors’ appeal against a lower court’s decision to throw out controversial criminal charges brought against a judge who had released former President Robert Kocharian from prison.
The head of a state body overseeing Armenian courts backed on Friday a government proposal to hire new judges who would deal only with corruption cases or pre-trial arrests of criminal suspects.
Azerbaijan released on Thursday five more Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) in line with the Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh on November 10.
A court in Yerevan has ordered Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to apologize through his spokeswoman for her disparaging comments about Armenia’s jailed former Finance Minister Gagik Khachatrian and his fugitive sons.
Opposition lawmakers continued to deplore on Wednesday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s failure to secure the release of Armenian soldiers and civilians held by Azerbaijan more than two months after the Russian-brokered ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The trial of former President Robert Kocharian and three other former senior Armenian officials facing coup charges resumed on Tuesday nearly four months after being effectively interrupted by the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A court in Yerevan ordered a law-enforcement agency on Tuesday to release the mayor of the Armenian town of Goris who was arrested after calling for civil disobedience against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The mayor of the southeastern Armenian town of Goris was arrested early on Monday just hours after urging local residents to block a highway and not allow Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to visit their region bordering Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government has commissioned 600,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines from World Health Organization-backed COVAX Facility and hopes to receive their first batch in February, a senior official said on Friday.
Armenian prosecutors have started scrutinizing assets of more than 200 people to determine whether they were acquired illegally and can be confiscated under a controversial law enacted earlier this year.
President Armen Sarkissian asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday to help free Armenian soldiers and civilians remaining in Azerbaijani captivity after the recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A drop in coronavirus infections recorded in recent weeks has reduced the burden on Armenia’s hospitals struggling to cope with the pandemic, Health Minister Arsen Torosian said on Thursday.
Parents and other relatives of Armenian soldiers who went missing during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh appealed to Russia on Tuesday to help find them or recover their bodies left in Azerbaijani-controlled territory.
Armenian prosecutors have appealed against courts’ decisions to free former National Security Service (NSS) Director Artur Vanetsian and two other opposition figures facing coup charges denied by them.
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