An Armenian government agency has asked prosecutors to investigate its allegations of serious financial irregularities committed by Yerevan’s municipal administration during former Mayor Hayk Marutian’s tenure.
A former Armenian mayor arrested after defeating the ruling Civil Contract in a local election in Vanadzor last December has been hospitalized following a reported deterioration of his health.
An Armenian opposition figure was released from custody late on Wednesday more than two months after being arrested on what he sees as trumped-up charges.
Armenia’s Central Bank on Monday did not confirm or deny reports that one of its senior executives is facing strong government pressure to resign because of being the brother of a jailed opposition politician.
Three weeks after a stated decriminalization of slander in Armenia, law-enforcement authorities are continuing to formally prosecute individuals accused of insulting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian or other senior officials.
Law-enforcement authorities have pledged to investigate the sudden death of a vocal critic of the Armenian government who was controversially arrested two months ago.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Wednesday that it has not yet indicted anyone in an ongoing investigation into leaked audio that led to the resignation of Gagik Jahangirian, the acting head of the country’s judicial watchdog.
Gagik Khachatrian, a former Armenian finance minister and tax chief standing trial on corruption charges, refused on Friday to comment on U.S. law-enforcement authorities’ efforts to confiscate his luxury mansion in California.
Dozens of parents of Armenian soldiers killed in the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh again rallied outside prosecutors’ headquarters in Yerevan on Thursday to demand criminal charges against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Hundreds of workers of a mining company in southeastern Armenia have gone on strike to demand better pay and working conditions.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Armenian investigators violated the rights of the leader and two members of a clandestine militant group that had allegedly plotted to overthrow former President Serzh Sarkisian.
A court in Yerevan has acquitted Western-funded youth activists who assaulted a blogger highly critical of the Armenian government more than three years ago.
After months of criticism from domestic and international civil rights groups, the Armenian authorities have decided to scrap controversial legislation that made it a crime to insult government officials and public figures.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency has pledged to investigate allegations that the Ministry of Health misused government funds provided to it in 2020 for the fight against COVID-19.
The Armenian authorities and opposition groups continued to blame each other on Monday for violent clashes between security forces and demonstrators demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Prosecutors have again refused to give the green light to the trial of Vladimir Gasparian, a former chief of the Armenian police facing corruption charges, saying that a criminal investigation conducted by another law-enforcement agency was flawed.
A traffic police officer whose car hit and killed a young woman while escorting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s motorcade was released from custody early on Friday hours after being arrested for the second time in two weeks.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have opened more than a dozen criminal cases against participants of daily opposition demonstrations aimed at forcing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
A court in Yerevan on Friday refused to grant bail to former Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian who was arrested last September on a string of corruption charges denied by him.
Armenian press freedom groups have condemned the head of a security agency that provides bodyguards to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and other senior officials for reportedly assaulting two journalists during an opposition demonstration in Yerevan.
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