In a move requested by political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, a court in Yerevan ordered on Wednesday the immediate release of a member of the armed opposition group that stormed an Armenian police base in 2016.
Three senior executives of a customs brokerage firm reportedly linked to the former head of Armenia’s tax and customs services have been arrested as part of a crackdown on corruption announced by the National Security Service (NSS).
Thousands of people again took to the streets of Yerevan on Sunday following the arrest of Nikol Pashinian and other organizers of daily protests against Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian.
At least 80 mostly young people were detained on Tuesday during continuing anti-government protests in Yerevan.
Opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian attended Armen Sarkissian’s inauguration on Monday, saying that the new Armenian president is more legitimate than his predecessor.
Three ethnic Armenian civilians working for the British demining group HALO Trust were killed and two others seriously wounded when a landmine exploded in Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday.
The editor of an independent Armenian media outlet and a man she accuses of making death threats against her were jointly questioned by law-enforcement officers for more than four hours on Thursday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-backed military claimed to have thwarted an Azerbaijani commando raid on its frontline positions early on Thursday, the first such incident reported by it in the last seven months.
One of the arrested members of an armed opposition group that seized a police station in Yerevan in 2016 ended a nearly month-long hunger strike after being taken to a prison hospital on Friday.
The head of Armenia’s national bar association joined on Friday some of its members in criticizing a government bill that would allow judges to fine lawyers for contempt of court.
The U.S. Embassy in Yerevan said on Friday that it is cooperating with Armenian law-enforcement authorities in their criminal proceedings against a U.S. national accused of calling for and plotting terrorist attacks in Armenia.
The Armenian authorities have made some progress in their declared fight against widespread corruption among the country’s judges, an anti-graft arm of the Council of Europe said on Monday.
Several dozen market traders rallied outside the Armenian parliament on Tuesday to protest against new government rules that require them to pay more taxes.
A man accused of plotting, together with a radical opposition leader, an armed revolt against the Armenian government, has ended his latest hunger strike which he began more than three weeks ago in protest against his continuing detention.
A court in Yerevan on Friday refused to release from custody Zhirayr Sefilian, a radical opposition figure standing trial for allegedly plotting an armed revolt against the government.
Armenia’s parliament debated on Wednesday the ratification of a new agreement with Russia which is meant to boost a joint Russian-Armenian military force that was created more than a decade ago.
An Armenian judge ordered on Thursday a third separate trial stemming the armed attack on a police station in Yerevan that was carried out by a radical opposition group last year.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian insisted on Thursday that he did not order a controversial government initiative to step up the teaching of the Russian language in Armenia’s schools.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have pledged to investigate threats of violence reported by a lawyer representing one of the radical opposition members who seized a police station in Yerevan last year.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has brought more charges of corruption against a senior judge who was arrested two months ago, it emerged on Tuesday
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