Former President Robert Kocharian has appealed to Armenia’s Court of Cassation to release him from custody pending investigation into his role in the deadly breakup of 2008 opposition protests in Yerevan.
Russia has officially confirmed that a former Armenian defense minister wanted by Yerevan on coup charges is a Russian citizen, an Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Tuesday.
A court in Yerevan on Friday ordered the release from pre-trial custody of Manvel Grigorian, a retired army general prosecuted on corruption charges.
The former chief of the Armenian police, Vladimir Gasparian, could be prosecuted for illegally campaigning for the ruling Republican Party (HHK) ahead of parliamentary elections held in 2012, law-enforcement authorities said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals has annulled an arrest warrant against a senior law-enforcement official who led a criminal investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan during former President Serzh Sarkisian’s rule.
A court in Yerevan on Wednesday allowed investigators to keep Manvel Grigorian, a retired army general prosecuted on corruption charges, under arrest for two more months.
Shant Harutiunian, a veteran Armenian political activist espousing nationalist views, has been released from prison under an amnesty law five years after being arrested for leading an anti-government street protest.
Ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have dismissed a possible offer from Azerbaijan to exchange prisoners of war and detainees held by both sides according to an “all-for-all” scheme.
Yuri Khachaturov, who headed the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) as part of Armenia’s rotating presidency in the organization, has been relieved of his duties.
The former head of an investigation group that conducted a probe into the 2008 deadly post-election violence has rejected as groundless the charges of falsifying evidence in the case that were brought against him by Armenian investigators.
The former head of an investigation group conducting a probe into the 2008 post-election unrest has been charged with falsifying evidence in the case and is now wanted by Armenian authorities, according to the Special Investigative Service.
Manvel Grigorian, a retired Armenian army general arrested in June on corruption charges, has offered to donate vast land holdings to the state, it emerged on Friday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Friday defended his decision to appoint a retired police general as governor of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province which has prompted criticism from human rights activists.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ordered Armenian authorities to pay a total of 7,500 euros ($8,600) in compensation to two former opposition activists who were arrested during 2008 post-election protests in Yerevan.
The brother of Armenia’s embattled former Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian was released from pre-trial custody on Wednesday two months after being charged with illegal arms possession.
A wealthy Armenian businessman who has benefited from government connections in the past was remanded in pre-trial custody on corruption charges late on Tuesday.
A wealthy Armenian businessman who has benefited from government connections in the past was arrested at the weekend for reasons that remained unknown on Monday.
An activist of businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) has been arrested on charges of assaulting police officers on the eve of Sunday’s municipal elections in Yerevan.
General Levon Yeranosian, the controversial former commander of Armenian interior troops, denied any wrongdoing on Wednesday after being charged with using excessive force against opposition protesters in April.
General Levon Yeranosian, the controversial former commander of Armenian interior troops, could be prosecuted over the use of force against anti-government protests in Yerevan last spring, it emerged on Tuesday.
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