Human rights activists blamed on Tuesday Armenian law-enforcement and health authorities for a near doubling of inmate deaths at the country’s prisons recorded this year.
Kazakhstan would like to make use of a planned U.S.-administered corridor that would connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave as well as Turkey through Armenia, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Friday.
A district court in Yerevan on Thursday extended by three more months the arrest of the only female defendant in the ongoing trial of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and his 17 supporters facing coup charges denied by them.
Armenia’s Justice Ministry will receive more than 1 billion drams ($2.6 million) in government funding to buy 48 new prisoner escort vehicles to cope with a growing number of incarcerated people in the country.
The Armenian government has refused to extradite to Russia a Georgian man who reportedly fought against Russian forces in Ukraine before being arrested in Armenia last month.
A senior pro-government lawmaker continued to demand on Thursday that speaker Alen Simonian allow him to present the Armenian parliament with the findings of a parliamentary inquiry into the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Mayor Tigran Avinian has censured a senior official from Yerevan’s municipal administration accused by a journalist of organizing a violent assault on him late last week.
An Armenian journalist has reportedly been beaten up outside his office in an attack which he believes was organized by a senior official from Yerevan’s municipal administration.
Acting on an extradition warrant issued by Russia, Armenian law-enforcement authorities have arrested a Georgian man who has reportedly fought against Russian forces in Ukraine.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian said on Tuesday that his Republican Party (HHK), one of the two opposition groups represented in the Armenian parliament, has not yet decided whether to run in the country’s next general elections due in June 2026.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have yet to work out practical modalities of a transit corridor that will connect Azerbaijan to its Nakhichevan exclave through a strategic Armenian region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian claimed on Thursday.
Law-enforcement authorities have brought corruption charges against the former head of a now defunct state fund that was disbanded last year after failing attract major foreign investment in Armenia.
Emergency services have managed to extinguish the fires that had been burning for several days at a landfill near Yerevan, but toxic smoke from the flames continues to spread far beyond the area, including into parts of the Armenian capital.
A former senior official from Armenia’s Investigative Committee was moved to house arrest on Friday two months after reportedly admitting organizing the theft of $590,000 in cash kept at the law-enforcement agency.
The Armenian parliament approved on Thursday a government bill that will allow authorities to fine commuters boycotting a significant increase in the cost of public transport in Yerevan.
An Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Wednesday that former President Serzh Sarkisian will go on trial for a fourth time on more corruption charges that were brought against him five years ago.
An Armenian archbishop who led last year massive anti-government protests and at least 14 of his supporters were detained on Wednesday, with law-enforcement authorities accusing them of plotting “terrorist acts” in a bid to seize power.
Police in Armenia reportedly detained dozens of opposition activists on Friday in a crackdown linked by opposition leaders to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s visit to Turkey.
Armenian opposition leaders condemned on Thursday the arrest and prosecution of billionaire businessman Samvel Karapetian that followed his strong criticism of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetian was formally arrested on coup charges on Wednesday one day after strongly condemning Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s campaign against the top clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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