Armenia’s Health Minister Anahit Avanesian on Thursday defended her controversial decision to allow riot police to use more powerful stun grenades which some experts say can kill protesters.
A reputedly government-linked member of Armenia’s Commission on Prevention of Corruption has prevented it from fining Defense Minister Suren Papikian’s wife for not declaring at least $23,000 in cash in her asset statement submitted to the state body.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have refused to specify the type of powerful stun grenades that injured dozens of antigovernment protesters and journalists in Yerevan last month.
An Armenian court on Monday granted bail to an opposition figure from Vanadzor who was arrested right after defeating Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party in a municipal election held in December 2021.
A court in Yerevan on Thursday again extended the arrest of Armen Ashotian, a prominent opposition politician facing what he and his allies see as politically motivated charges.
The Armenian Ministry of Health has formally allowed riot police to use more powerful stun grenades that are believed to have injured dozens of antigovernment protesters and journalists in Yerevan last month.
Vladimir Gasparian, a former chief of the Armenian police, was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison on corruption charges denied by him.
Employees of Armenia’s Administrative Court went on strike on Monday to demand higher wages.
Law-enforcement authorities have still not brought criminal charges against any of the police officers who were caught on camera beating up an Armenian opposition parliamentarian during antigovernment protests in Yerevan late last month.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), a major opposition party involved in antigovernment protests in Yerevan, on Tuesday rejected as politically motivated criminal charges brought against nine of its activists.
Law-enforcement officers searched the offices of Armenia’s leading homegrown online taxi-hailing service and confiscated its computers at the weekend just days after its owner urged people to attend ongoing antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), a major opposition party involved in ongoing antigovernment protests, said on Friday that security forces raided its offices in the southeastern Vayots Dzor province and detained a dozen local activists.
Three supporters of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian have been arrested and charged in connection with Friday’s antigovernment demonstration in Yerevan that ended in scuffles with riot police.
Twenty-seven supporters of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian were set free on Monday three days after being arrested during an antigovernment demonstration in Yerevan that ended in scuffles with riot police.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian was acquitted on Friday more than four years after going on trial on corruption charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Law-enforcement authorities have brought no criminal charges yet against any of the police officers who were caught on camera beating up an Armenian opposition parliamentarian during Monday’s antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
Police made nearly 300 arrests on Monday as Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and his supporters continued to demonstrate in Yerevan to demand Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have brought criminal charges against the exiled mayor of the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Askeran who has participated in recent antigovernment demonstrations in Yerevan.
Hundreds of Armenian lawyers went on strike on Tuesday, protesting against government plans to significantly increase taxes paid by them.
One Armenian journalist has been hit by a police vehicle and another knocked unconscious while covering police crackdowns on protesters in Yerevan demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
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