Tens of thousands of people marched to the Tsitsernakabert memorial in Yerevan on Monday to mark the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
Armenians began voting on Sunday morning in parliamentary elections which President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) hopes will extend its more than decade-long rule.
Hundreds of people took part on Wednesday in the funeral of Artur Sargsian, an Armenian activist who died last week while being prosecuted on charges of aiding opposition gunmen last summer.
Foreign forensic experts can participate in the ongoing inquiry into the death of an Armenian activist who was charged with aiding opposition gunmen las summer, the Investigative Committee said on Monday.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities indicated on Friday that they might prosecute doctors in connection with the death of a man who was arrested last year after delivering food to opposition gunmen occupying a police station in Yerevan.
A man who delivered food last summer to anti-government gunmen occupying a police compound in Yerevan died on Thursday ten days after being released from prison following a 25-day hunger strike.
The number of people held in Armenia’s prisons has risen by 38 percent over the past decade, bucking trends in most European countries, the Council of Europe said in a report released on Tuesday.
A man accused of aiding anti-government gunmen who seized a police compound in Yerevan last year was again released from custody on Monday following a 25-day hunger strike.
A man accused of aiding anti-government gunmen who seized a police compound in Yerevan last year remains on hunger strike which he began three weeks ago immediately after being again arrested by law-enforcement authorities.
Justice Minister Arpine Hovannisian disagreed on Tuesday with criticism of the Armenian government’s main anti-corruption body which has been voiced by the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, Richard Mills.
One of several men accused of plotting, together with a radical opposition leader, an armed revolt against the Armenian government has been on a hunger strike for the past two weeks, demanding his release from prison.
Twenty-six Armenian police officers have been sacked this year for violating human rights and committing other abuses, a senior police official revealed on Friday.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers met in Hamburg late on Thursday for fresh talks on Nagorno-Karabakh mediated by the U.S., Russian and French co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Armenia’s Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobian expressed hope on Thursday that Syrian government troops will soon capture all districts of Aleppo remaining under rebel control.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday handed down two more rulings against Armenia stemming from what it considers deeply flawed investigations conducted by Armenian law-enforcement authorities.
A second arrested member of the armed opposition group which seized a police station in Yerevan in July has been charged with murdering a police officer, his lawyer revealed on Wednesday.
One of the opposition gunmen who seized a police station in Yerevan in July has been charged with killing a police officer during their two-week standoff with Armenian security forces, it emerged on Tuesday.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals opened hearings Thursday on a lower court verdict in the trial of a Russian soldier who was convicted of murdering an Armenian family of seven in Gyumri.
The Armenian government announced on Tuesday plans to introduce a special tax that will finance new and much heftier benefits for the families of military personnel killed or seriously wounded in action.
Many of the ethnic Armenians remaining in Aleppo want to leave Syria but are unable to do so for financial reasons, according to yet another local family that arrived in Armenia on Wednesday.
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