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15:36 28/07/2022Mourad Papazian starting legal action over Armenia entry banFrench-Armenian community leader and ARF Bureau member Mourad Papazian is taking legal action against the Armenian authorities over the decision to ban him from entering Armenia, he said in a social...
13:10 28/07/2022Arrested ex-chief prosecutor Aghvan Hovsepyan hospitalizedArmenia’s former Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, who is currently under arrest, has been taken to Izmirlian Medical Center in Yerevan, the secretary said at a court hearing in his trial on...
16:36 27/07/2022Vahagn Vermishyan not being taken to hospital, lawyer saysVahagn Vermishyan, the former head of the Armenian government's Urban Development Committee, has been refused to be transferred from the penitentiary institution to a hospital, his lawyer Alexander...
14:31 27/07/2022Arrested Vanadzor election winner hospitalized, lawyer saysMamikon Aslanyan, who won a second term in the Vanadzor municipal elections in December 2021 and was arrested shortly afterwards, has been taken to a civilian hospital after feeling sick, lawyer...
12:36 27/07/2022Judge presiding over ZCMC case under pressure – PastinfoJudge Anahit Tumanyan, who is presiding over the Zangezur Mining vs. Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) case, is facing pressure, Pastinfo reports, citing its sources. “She is not only...
15:56 26/07/2022Opposition activist Avetik Chalabyan accuses Pashinyan of persecuting him and his familyA first instance court in Yerevan on Tuesday started hearings in the trial of opposition activist and politician Avetik Chalabyan.
14:26 25/07/2022'Avetik Chalabyan's arrest should be an alarm for society': Opposition activist's family, lawyers hold news conferenceThe trial in the case of opposition activist Avetik Chalabyan, a member of the Unification Movement, is to start soon, his defense team told a news conference in Yerevan on Monday, presenting the...
12:36 23/07/2022Oppositionist Mikayel Badalyan released on bailA court in Yerevan ordered the release of opposition blogger Mikayel Badalyan on a bail of 6 million drams late on Friday, Arsen Babayan, a senior member of the opposition Homeland Party, said on...
15:06 22/07/2022'Political prisoner' Mikayel Badalyan hospitalized, lawyer saysArrested opposition blogger Mikayel Badalyan has been taken to a civilian hospital, lawyer Arsen Babayan, a senior member of the opposition Homeland Party, said on Friday.
12:16 22/07/2022Armenian parliament council fails to meet amid lack of quorumThe Armenian parliament leadership failed to hold a special sitting amid a lack of quorum on Friday.
16:36 21/07/2022Zareh Sinanyan opposes stricter citizenship requirements for Diaspora ArmeniansArmenia’s High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs Zareh Sinanyan opposes stricter citizenship requirements for Diaspora Armenians sought by the National Security Service.
15:58 21/07/2022Judge who ordered Armen Grigoryan's arrest quits Union of JudgesJudge Arusyak Aleksanyan of a fist instance court in Yerevan, who ordered the arrest of film producer Armen Grigoryan, has decided to quit the Union of Judges, its spokeswoman Elen Arakelyan...
15:36 21/07/2022Armenia sent 50 more fallen soldiers' remains to the Netherlands for DNA analysis, minister saysArmenia has sent the remains of 50 more soldiers killed in the 2020 Artsakh war to the Netherlands for additional DNA testing, Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan told reporters on Thursday.
15:57 20/07/2022Tatoyan submits alternative report to UN committee over Azerbaijan's policy of ArmenophobiaArmenia’s former Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Arman Tatoyan has submitted an alternative report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) regarding Azerbaijan's policy...
11:30 20/07/2022Armenia doesn't fully meet minimum standards to eliminate trafficking, report saysU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday released the 2022 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. For the second year in a row, Armenia is on Tier 2, in recognition of its overall increasing...
14:32 19/07/2022Armenian opposition changes rally dateThe Armenian opposition has changed the date for its next rally in Yerevan amid the unprecedented heatwave.
14:09 19/07/2022'About Armen and his murderers': Opposition activist Avetik Chalabyan's letter from pre-trial custodyAvetik Chalabyan, an opposition activist and public figure who has been illegally kept in pre-trial custody since May 14, wrote a letter from the Armavir penitentiary.
12:46 19/07/2022Judge Tigran Sahakyan dismissedJudge Tigran Sahakyan of Armenia’s Court of Criminal Appeals has been officially relieved of his duties as the court chair and member after turning 65.
12:16 19/07/2022Opposition holds protest in support of political prisoners outside UN Office in YerevanThe Armenian opposition on Tuesday staged a protest in support of illegally arrested opposition activists outside the United Nations Office in Yerevan.
11:33 18/07/2022Roman Abramovich demands that EU transfer $1 million to his charityRussian billionaire Roman Abramovich has demanded that the European Union transfer $1 million to his charitable organization as compensation for the damage caused to him by the sanctions imposed by...