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.
The Constitutional Court has refused to strike down a controversial law that made it a crime to insult Armenian officials and public figures.
Prosecutor-General Artur Davtian has ordered law-enforcement authorities to reinvigorate a controversial criminal investigation into businessman and opposition politician Gagik Tsarukian launched nearly two years ago.
Armenia’s Court of Cassation has absolved Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from all responsibility for the 2008 post-election unrest in Yerevan that left ten people dead.
The jailed mayor of the southeastern Armenian town of Goris and surrounding villages was set free but risked losing his post on Monday five months after his opposition bloc’s victory in a local election.
Opposition lawmakers have asked Armenia’s Constitutional Court to ban the government from initiating disciplinary proceedings against judges accused of misconduct or other abuses.
Hrayr Tovmasian, the former chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, has partially won a defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Many Armenians are desperate to flee Ukraine in the face of Russia’s continuing military assault, a leader of the local Armenian community said on Monday.
Armenia did not move to evacuate its citizens from Ukraine or tell them to leave the country on Thursday hours after a large-scale military attack launched by Russia.
Armenian prosecutors on Monday pledged to look into reports that former President Armen Sarkissian had failed to declare millions of dollars stashed in a Swiss bank.
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