Two of the arrested members of an armed opposition group that seized a police station in Yerevan last year have been on a hunger strike for more than two weeks.
Judicial authorities in Armenia have somewhat changed the rules for controversial security checks on defense lawyers which have contributed to tensions in the ongoing trials of radical opposition members accused of grave crimes.
Armenia’s French-managed water distribution network said on Thursday it will ask state utility regulators soon to allow another increase in the price of drinking water in the country.
Hundreds of Armenians have filed government-backed lawsuits in the European Court of Human Rights accusing Azerbaijan of beheading Armenian soldiers and committing other atrocities during last year’s heavy fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh.
The trial of the key members of an armed opposition that seized a police station in Yerevan last year remained effectively paralyzed on Wednesday by continuing wrangling between the presiding judge and defense lawyers.
Tensions continued to run high on Thursday at the trial of 18 men who seized a police station in Yerevan last year, with several defense lawyers walking out of the courtroom to protest against the absence of their clients.
Deputy Justice Minister Suren Krmoyan on Tuesday dismissed concerns voiced by the New York-based group Human Rights Watch about the alleged ill-treatment of four arrested members of an armed Armenian opposition group during their ongoing trial.
The New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for a “prompt, thorough, and effective” investigation into reports that four arrested members of an armed Armenian opposition group were beaten up during their ongoing trial in Yerevan.
Five arrested members of an armed Armenian opposition claimed to have been brutally attacked by police on Wednesday immediately after the latest court hearing in their ongoing trial in Yerevan.
A third court hearing in the trial of radical opposition members who seized a police station in Yerevan last year lasted for only several minutes amid chaotic scenes on Wednesday.
An Armenian opposition activist was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on Tuesday for his alleged role in last year’s clashes between riot police and supporters of gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
The leader of an armed Armenian opposition group that seized a police station in Yerevan last year may face more criminal charges after calling for President Serzh Sarkisian’s “physical destruction” at his ongoing trial.
Fourteen members of a radical opposition group went on trial on Thursday almost one year after most of them seized, together with two dozen other men, a police base in Yerevan in what they called an uprising against Armenia’s government.
Two more Armenian judges as well as one prosecutor have been accused of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes in return for making illegal decisions on two court cases in the country’s Gegharkunik province.
The Armenian Ministry of Health has called for a legal ban on smoking in public places and a sharp rise in the prices of cigarettes, citing the need to reduce the large number of smokers in Armenia.
A trial of Zhirayr Sefilian began in Yerevan on Friday almost one year after the radical opposition figure was arrested on charges of plotting an armed revolt against the Armenian government.
A prominent Karabakh war veteran who was released from prison under an amnesty act having served more than half of his controversial six-year term resumed his protest in front of the Armenian government, deploring fraudulent elections and demanding social justice to thousands of people like him.
Armenia’s ruling party believes the Sunday mayoral elections in Yerevan were a “serious step forward” as compared to the previous municipal vote held in the capital four years ago.
The opposition Yelk alliance promised on Monday that residents of Yerevan refusing to take vote bribes from the ruling Republican Party (HHK) will receive greater financial rewards if it wins Sunday’s municipal elections.
Campaigning for reelection, Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian promised on Thursday to radically revamp the city’s outdated system of public transportation, a source of growing complaints from commuters and opposition allegations of government corruption.
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