The pro-government majority in the National Assembly on Wednesday refused to elect a candidate nominated by Armenian judges as a member of the Constitutional Court.
Russia allowed an Azerbaijani man accused by Armenia of beheading a Nagorno-Karabakh civilian during the 2020 war to return to Azerbaijan on Thursday one day after briefly detaining him at a Moscow airport.
Police in Russia briefly detained on Wednesday an Azerbaijani man accused by Armenia of committing war crimes during the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A court in Yerevan allowed law-enforcement authorities to put former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian under house arrest on Friday one day after they indicted him in an ongoing corruption investigation criticized by him.
One day after being relieved of his duties, former Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian was indicted and detained on Thursday in an ongoing corruption investigation criticized by him.
A powerful body overseeing Armenia’s courts faced on Monday fresh accusations of suppressing judicial independence after circulating a video that lambastes judges presiding over the protracted trials of former senior officials at odds with the country’s current leadership.
A court in Yerevan on Monday gave a suspended prison sentence to a prominent Armenian surgeon and former opposition lawmaker convicted of pressuring his subordinates to participate in the 2021 parliamentary elections.
Armenia is ready to formally pledge not to have any territorial claims to Azerbaijan in the future, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said over the weekend.
A court in Yerevan ended the marathon trial of former President Robert Kocharian on Wednesday after he agreed to plead the statute of limitations despite strongly denying corruption charges leveled against him.
A Russian conscript soldier who reportedly deserted his army unit fighting in Ukraine has been arrested in Armenia and sent back to Russia.
An Armenian journalist has been stripped of her parliamentary accreditation after arguing with a senior pro-government deputy who accused her newspaper of corruption.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has dismissed an appeal filed more than three years ago by the former chairman and three other members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court against their dismissal engineered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The Armenian authorities have moved to confiscate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets belonging to Gagik Tsarukian, one of Armenia’s richest men leading a major opposition party.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have dropped one of the two criminal charges against a former commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s army prosecuted for serious military setbacks suffered during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
A political group increasingly critical of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday strongly denied any involvement in what Armenian authorities call a botched conspiracy to seize government buildings and “disrupt the work of government bodies.”
Four more participants of recent anti-government protests in Yerevan, including a 16-year-old boy, have been arrested on what their lawyers and the Armenian opposition call politically motivated charges.
Four years after reopening a criminal investigation into the 1999 deadly attack on the Armenian parliament, law-enforcement authorities have identified no new suspects in the high-profile case.
After a more than four-year investigation, Armenian law-enforcement authorities have dropped murder charges against a former senior police official prosecuted over the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan.
The National Security Service (NSS) is still investigating allegations that the head of another Armenian law-enforcement agency personally tortured four criminal suspects during a separate inquiry, prosecutors said on Friday.
Thirty-one participants of recent anti-government protests in Yerevan, many of them university students, remain in custody on what the Armenian opposition and human rights activists regard as politically motivated charges.
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