Campaigning for municipal elections in Yerevan officially ended on Friday with more reports of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party forcing public sector workers to attend its mayoral candidate’s meetings.
Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract is facing more allegations of electoral foul play after scores of schoolteachers and other public sector employees were spotted attending its mayoral candidate Tigran Avinian’s campaign rallies in Yerevan.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian has been cleared of any wrongdoing following a more than yearlong investigation into the legality of his private trips to Germany taken during his rule, it emerged on Thursday.
A high-ranking Armenian cleric has been charged with fraud and money laundering 18 months after being cleared of the same accusations brought in 2020.
Three more men have accused the head of Armenia’s Investigative Committee, Argishti Kyaramian, of torturing them during an ongoing criminal investigation into a controversial video blogger based in the United States, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
A former diplomat and his son running Armenia’s leading classical music orchestra were arrested at the weekend on fraud charges denied by them.
An Armenian military officer has died in hospital almost four years after being badly injured in a violent incident that led to the resignation of a political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
The head of Armenia’s Investigative Committee, Argishti Kyaramian, has not been indicted in a criminal inquiry into allegations that he tortured and threatened to kill a man arrested in June.
An Armenian civic group has accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s Civil Contract party and local government officials affiliated with it of abusing their administrative resources to facilitate the party’s victory in forthcoming municipal elections in Yerevan.
Armenian judges on Wednesday criticized the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) for sacking their colleagues and accused it of trying to effectively rig the election of a new member of the state body overseeing the country’s courts.
Raising more questions about corruption in Armenia, an independent investigative publication has suggested that parliament speaker Alen Simonian may be involved in the ongoing construction of an expensive residential complex.
An Armenian appeals court on Monday refused to order the release of Armen Ashotian, a prominent opposition politician arrested last month on what he and his Republican Party (HHK) call politically motivated charges.
Armenian prosecutors have issued an international arrest warrant for Vigen Sargsian, a U.S.-based former defense minister and opposition figure facing what he sees as politically motivated charges.
The Armenian parliament approved late on Tuesday a controversial government bill that will allow law-enforcement authorities not to press charges against individuals confessing to murders and other serious crimes.
Armenia’s Interior Ministry and national bar association agreed on Tuesday to set up a joint working group tasked with protecting lawyers against violent police actions.
Another well-known judge was ousted on Monday after accusing Armenia’s government and state judicial watchdog headed by a political ally of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of seeking to control courts.
A former mayor of Vanadzor arrested in December 2021 after defeating Armenia’s ruling party in a local election continued to strongly deny corruption charges leveled against him during his yearlong trial on Thursday.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has suspended its criminal investigation into a former commander of Nagorno-Karabakh’s army prosecuted for serious military setbacks suffered during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Another Armenian lawyer on Tuesday claimed to have been beaten up by police officers while representing a criminal suspect.
Lawyers representing Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday that the former Armenian presidents standing trial on corruption charges will not invoke the statute of limitations and will continue fight for their acquittal.
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