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.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have refused to prosecute a local government official who has said that refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh participating in opposition rallies in Yerevan must be denied government aid.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has appointed Armenia’s former human rights ombudswoman, Kristine Grigorian, as the first head of a foreign intelligence agency formally set up by his government about a year ago.
Several members of Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party and other loyalists of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian have said that refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh participating in opposition rallies in Yerevan must be denied government aid.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has pledged to help residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fleeing to Armenia search for their relatives who went missing after Azerbaijan’s September 19 military offensive.
The National Security Service (NSS) has arrested eight men on charges of plotting to overthrow Armenia’s government.
More than a thousand residents of Nagorno-Karabakh were evacuated to Armenia on Sunday five days after Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military offensive in the Armenian-populated region.
Angry protesters clashed with riot police outside the main government building in Yerevan for the second consecutive night on Wednesday as they continued to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation over his handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Riot police clashed late on Tuesday with angry protesters who gathered outside the main government building in Yerevan to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation following Azerbaijan’s large-scale military attack on Nagorno-Karabakh.
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