The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), a major opposition party involved in ongoing antigovernment protests, said on Friday that security forces raided its offices in the southeastern Vayots Dzor province and detained a dozen local activists.
Three supporters of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian have been arrested and charged in connection with Friday’s antigovernment demonstration in Yerevan that ended in scuffles with riot police.
Twenty-seven supporters of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian were set free on Monday three days after being arrested during an antigovernment demonstration in Yerevan that ended in scuffles with riot police.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian was acquitted on Friday more than four years after going on trial on corruption charges rejected by him as politically motivated.
Law-enforcement authorities have brought no criminal charges yet against any of the police officers who were caught on camera beating up an Armenian opposition parliamentarian during Monday’s antigovernment protests in Yerevan.
Police made nearly 300 arrests on Monday as Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and his supporters continued to demonstrate in Yerevan to demand Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have brought criminal charges against the exiled mayor of the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Askeran who has participated in recent antigovernment demonstrations in Yerevan.
Hundreds of Armenian lawyers went on strike on Tuesday, protesting against government plans to significantly increase taxes paid by them.
One Armenian journalist has been hit by a police vehicle and another knocked unconscious while covering police crackdowns on protesters in Yerevan demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Police in Armenia detained early on Thursday dozens of people in a border village in the northern Tavush province trying to prevent the controversial handover of adjacent border areas to Azerbaijan.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Monday that it has brought criminal charges against one of several dozen persons who jeered Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s wife last week.
An Armenian court on Friday again refused to free an opposition figure from Vanadzor who was arrested right after defeating Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party in a municipal election held in December 2021.
Law-enforcement authorities could bring criminal charges against over a dozen men arrested during ongoing protests in northern Tavush region against the Armenian government’s decision to hand over four contested border areas to Azerbaijan.
Friday’s high-level negotiations between Armenia, the United States and the European Union will add to the West’s geopolitical rivalry with Russia in the South Caucasus, former President Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday.
A former Nagorno-Karabakh official who did not flee the region right after its recapture by Azerbaijan has been arrested on espionage charges after unexpectedly arriving in Armenia late last week.
Investigators raided on Friday the offices of a fringe political group increasingly critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in connection with an armed attacked on a police station in Yerevan carried out by its supporters.
Two men were wounded and another arrested during an apparent armed attack on a police station in Yerevan launched by them on Sunday.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian met with an exiled opponent of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Brussels on Thursday, underscoring a growing pro-Western tilt in Armenia’s foreign policy.
A once prominent Armenian politician accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and seize power will be moved to house arrest on Saturday after spending six months in pre-trial detention.
A lawyer representing former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian on Thursday strongly denied corruption charges brought against him, saying that they are the result of a deeply flawed criminal investigation.
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