A newly formed government commission tasked with drafting wide-ranging amendments to the Armenian constitution met for the first time on Friday amid uncertainty about the outcome of its work.
Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian will go on trial next Tuesday on corruption charges which he rejects as politically motivated.
Businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) on Friday questioned the legality of an upcoming referendum on constitutional changes sought by the country’s leadership and said it will avoid any involvement in the process.
Representatives of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) have expressed serious concern about what they see as unprecedented tensions between Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasian.
Armenian prosecutors have paved the way for a trial of former President Serzh Sarkisian, formally endorsing corruption charges brought against him.
A lawyer for Armenia’s jailed former President Robert Kocharian on Tuesday denied maintaining secret contacts with Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasian alleged by a close associate of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia should not revert to the presidential system of government as a result of constitutional changes planned by its current leadership, Justice Minister Rustam Badasian said on Tuesday.
The two opposition parties represented in Armenia’s parliament have named their representatives to an ad hoc commission tasked with drafting constitutional changes planned by the government.
Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanian on Thursday declined to give a possible date for his fresh talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov anticipated by international mediators.
Armenian prosecutors have refused to unfreeze assets of former President Serzh Sarkisian who is facing corruption charges strongly denied by him.
The Armenian authorities have strongly denied media claims that they will use repressive methods and even blackmail in a bid to force the chairman and other members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court to resign.
A former Justice Ministry official related to Hrayr Tovmasian was arrested on Thursday as part of criminal proceedings launched against the embattled chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
The official owner of a TV channel critical of the Armenian government was remanded in custody on Thursday after being charged with seeking false testimony in favor of the jailed former President Robert Kocharian.
Law-enforcement authorities have decided to resume a criminal investigation into the 1999 armed attack on the Armenian parliament which left its speaker Karen Demirchian, Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian and six other officials dead.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals released on Wednesday a supporter of Robert Kocharian who was arrested in September on charges of harassing a judge presiding over the jailed former president’s trial.
The owner of a TV channel critical of the Armenian government was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of seeking false testimony that would benefit the country’s jailed former President Robert Kocharian.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) on Tuesday called for the holding of snap general elections in Armenia next year, saying that opposition groups are underrepresented in the country’s current parliament.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court’s refusal to release Robert Kocharian from jail pending the outcome of the ongoing trial of the former president and three other former officials.
A group of supporters of Robert Kocharian on Wednesday claimed to have collected 60,000 signatures in support of its demands for the release of Armenia’s arrested former president facing corruption and coup charges.
The Armenian government approved on Thursday what it described as an anti-corruption bill that would allow authorities to confiscate private properties and other assets deemed to have been acquired illegally.
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