Law-enforcement authorities arrested three activists of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) and searched the homes of two others on Wednesday in what the opposition party condemned as a “new cycle” of government repression.
Three major nongovernmental organizations have condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s decision to install the Armenian police chief, Vahe Ghazarian, as interior minister, saying that he has resisted police reforms and tolerated corruption.
A state body overseeing Armenian courts has controversially fired a judge married to a vocal critic of the country’s government.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the recent reelection of the head of a state university at odds with the government.
Law-enforcement authorities said on Thursday that they will not prosecute a controversial former head of Armenia’s judicial watchdog despite leaked audio in which he appeared to blackmail his predecessor at loggerheads with the government.
No Armenian police officers have been charged with using excessive force against opposition protesters who demanded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation earlier this year.
Relatives of a pregnant woman who died after being hit by a police car escorting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade continued to accuse Armenian authorities of a cover-up as the sole suspect in the case went on trial on Thursday.
The election of a judge with a controversial track record has sparked criticism from political circles and civil society in Armenia.
France has refused to extradite to Armenia former controversial governor of Syunik Surik Khachatrian wanted by Yerevan on corruption-related charges.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has been questioned as a witness as part of an investigation into a possible abuse of official authorities related to the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia’s Investigative Committee said.
The Armenian Apostolic Church has authorized one of its senior clergymen to address an opposition rally in Yerevan that will warn Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian against recognizing Azerbaijani sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh.
A senior official from the U.S. State Department has visited one of the sections of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijani which saw heavy fighting last month.
An Armenian man is among eight suspects arrested by Russia over the bombing of a strategic bridge to Crimea which Moscow has blamed on Ukraine.
Azerbaijan on Tuesday freed and handed over to Armenia 17 Armenian soldiers taken prisoner last month during two days of heavy fighting on the border between the two countries.
Arayik Harutiunian, the Nagorno-Karabakh president, has expressed hope that Russian peacekeeping forces will remain stationed in Karabakh in the foreseeable future.
Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of executing at least two of its soldiers who were taken prisoner during last week’s heavy fighting on the border between the two states.
An ad hoc commission working on constitutional reform will officially respond later this month to outgoing Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian’s controversial calls for restoring the death penalty for individuals convicted of high treason in Armenia.
The director of a Yerevan market where an apparent fireworks warehouse explosion last Sunday killed more than a dozen people has denied any breach of fire-safety regulations.
A court in Yerevan on Thursday granted bail to former Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian who was arrested last September on a string of corruption charges denied by him.
An Armenian opposition figure prosecuted on what he sees as politically motivated charges was arrested again on Wednesday one week after his release from custody.
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