Armenia’s government is not considering trying to evacuate ethnic Armenians from Aleppo despite the worsening security situation in the war-ravaged Syrian city, the Foreign Ministry in Yerevan said on Monday.
An Armenian election-monitoring organization said on Monday that its members witnessed and documented 134 irregularities during nationwide local elections held over the weekend.
A higher court in Armenia has rejected more appeals filed by some of the three dozen members of an armed group that seized and held for two weeks a police station in Yerevan last month, to have a general-jurisdiction court’s decisions on their pretrial detention revoked.
Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday visited a citizen of Armenia who, under yet unclear circumstances, reportedly crossed the border into Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhijevan earlier this month and was apprehended by local border guards.
Armenia’s law-enforcement authorities have published the list of the types of stun grenades and other “special means” of crowd control that were used in dispersing public protests during the recent standoff over a seized police station in Yerevan, insisting that all of the relevant non-lethal devices can be used “legitimately” under an order of the health minister.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Friday claimed to have found a cache of ammunition and explosive materials in a Yerevan apartment, saying that it may be connected with opposition gunmen that seized a police compound last month.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have released one of the gunmen that surrendered to them on Sunday two weeks after launching a deadly attack on a police station in Yerevan.
The Armenian police said on Wednesday that they have been ordered to identify “civilians” that beat up journalists and protesters during the violent dispersal of a demonstration held last week in support of gunmen barricaded inside a Yerevan police compound.
A total of 47 people have been arrested in connection with the armed attack on a police compound in Yerevan carried out by members of a radical opposition group, Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) said on Monday.
Riot police clashed late on Friday with hundreds of people near a police compound in Yerevan occupied by gunmen affiliated with an Armenian opposition group.
Armenian security forces shot and wounded three more gunmen on Friday in a continuing standoff with an armed opposition group barricaded inside a police compound in Yerevan.
Law-enforcement authorities have arrested another organizer of daily demonstrations held in Yerevan in support of armed members of an Armenian opposition group holed up in a police station.
Zhirayr Sefilian, a jailed opposition leader, on Tuesday urged the Armenian authorities to negotiate with him an end to their continuing standoff with armed members of his Founding Parliament movement occupying a police station in Yerevan.
The anti-government gunmen holed up in a police station in Yerevan released on Saturday all four police officers held hostage by them after negotiations held with the Armenian government through a mediator.
The anti-government gunmen holed up in a police station in Yerevan have agreed to free all four police officers held hostage by them, a retired army general negotiating with them said on Saturday.
The European Union and Russia on Thursday joined the United States in condemning the deadly attack on a police station in Yerevan launched by gunmen affiliated with an Armenian radical opposition group.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities said on Wednesday that they have no plans yet to storm a police station in Yerevan three days after it was seized by gunmen affiliated with a hardline opposition group.
Nikol Pashinian, a prominent Armenian opposition parliamentarian, demanded that law-enforcement authorities allow him to meet the jailed leader of a radical opposition group whose armed members continued to occupy a police building in Yerevan early on Monday.
Lawyers for Zhirayr Sefilian demanded on Tuesday his immediate release from prison, insisting that the radical opposition politician arrested last week did not plan to mount an armed revolt against Armenia’s government.
Four ethnic Armenian civilians have reportedly been killed and dozens of others wounded in Syria’s formerly largest city of Aleppo in continuing clashes between Syrian government troops and rebel forces.
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