Armenian authorities have started accessing and using personal data from people’s mobile phones to fight against the coronavirus epidemic, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Robert Kocharian, Armenia’s former president standing trial on coup charges, was taken back to prison on Friday after spending more than three weeks in hospital.
The Armenian government continued to defend on Wednesday its controversial decision to use personal data from people’s mobile phones to fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
Authorities suspended public transport in Yerevan and set up roadblocks across Armenia on Wednesday as they stepped up their efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Armenian parliamentarians on Friday voted unanimously in favor of amendments envisaging administrative and criminal liability for violating the requirements of isolation and self-isolation during epidemic-conditioned national emergencies as well as for spreading “panic-mongering” information.
Police in Armenia are investigating allegations by a young man who claims to have been attacked for his joke on social media about a woman blamed for spreading the new coronavirus in a western Armenian town.
A former senior investigator wanted in Armenia as part of a probe into the 2008 crackdown on the opposition has been released after a brief arrest in Russia, his lawyer Mihran Poghosian said.
A former senior investigator wanted in Armenia as part of a probe into the 2008 crackdown on the opposition has been arrested in Russia, according to the Armenian prosecutor-general’s adviser.
Citing the statute of limitations, investigators have dropped a corruption case against a former mayor of Yerevan accused of illegally privatizing municipal land at a knockdown price.
Law-enforcement authorities have dropped corruption and tax evasion charges against the former chief bodyguard of ex-President Serzh Sarkisian nearly four months after he transferred 2.9 billion drams ($6 million) to the state.
A court in Yerevan on Friday refused to throw out corruption charges brought against a senior government official who actively participated in Armenia’s “Velvet Revolution.”
An Armenian law-enforcement has decided not to bring additional criminal charges against Vachagan Ghazarian, the former chief bodyguard of ex-President Serzh Sarkisian.
An Armenian prosecutor has again dismissed coup charges brought by another law-enforcement agency against former parliament speaker Ara Babloyan and one of his former senior aides.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Azerbaijan guilty of brutally torturing an Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani captivity more than nine years ago.
A senior law-enforcement official dismissed on Friday defense lawyers’ claims that corruption charges leveled against former President Serzh Sarkisian are politically motivated.
Citing an alleged death threat, defense lawyers boycotted on Tuesday a court hearing in the trial of the former President Robert Kocharian and three other men prosecuted on coup charges denied by them.
Georgi Kutoyan, a former head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) who was found shot dead on Friday, most probably committed suicide, Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian said over the weekend.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has concluded a criminal investigation into former President Serzh Sarkisian, insisting that it had enough evidence to bring corruption charges strongly denied by him.
Lawyers for Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasian insisted on Monday that law-enforcement authorities have brought criminal charges against him in violation of Armenian law.
The Special Investigative Service (SIS) will interrogate Hrayr Tovmasian, the embattled chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, on Friday two months after another law-enforcement agency recommended criminal charges against him.
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