Hasmik Smbatian

Ստեղծվել է Hasmik Smbatian

• Օգոստոս 20, 2009

  Rights Groups Condemn Case Against Armenian Activist

  Armenia’s leading human rights organizations on Wednesday strongly condemned the national police for prosecuting a young civic activist who helped to set off alarm bells over alleged sexual and other abuse of children at a Yerevan boarding school.

• Օգոստոս 01, 2009

  Yerevan Under Pressure To Free Ailing Editor

  Prison authorities in Armenia recommended on Friday the urgent release of Arman Babajanian, a jailed newspaper editor diagnosed with a brain tumor, amid mounting uproar from international civil rights groups concerned about his deteriorating condition.

• Հուլիս 01, 2009

  Armenian Journalists Urge Release Of Iranian Colleagues

  Two dozen Armenian journalists have signed a petition urging the release of dozens of their Iranian colleagues reportedly arrested in an ongoing crackdown on dissent that followed Iran’s disputed presidential election.

• Հունիս 06, 2009

  Armenian Paper Fined For ‘Slandering’ Kocharian’s Son

  A Yerevan court on Friday fined a pro-opposition newspaper and ordered it to retract a report that accused former President Robert Kocharian’s younger son of provoking a drunken argument in the United Arab Emirates last December.

• Հունիս 04, 2009

  Armenian First Ladies ‘Oppose’ Mining Project

  Armenia’s current and former first ladies have signed a petition against a controversial mining project approved by their husbands, ecologists strongly opposed to its implementation said on Wednesday.

• Հունիս 03, 2009

  Local Monitors Criticize Yerevan Vote

  Armenia’s largest election-monitoring organization gave on Tuesday a largely negative evaluation of Sunday’s mayoral elections in Yerevan, reporting a wide range of irregularities.

• Մայիս 31, 2009

  Hundreds Bused To Yerevan On Polling Day

  Hundreds of local government officials and other people were bused to Yerevan from Armenia’s second and third largest cities on Sunday in what the ruling Republican Party (HHK) called a show of support for its victory in the municipal elections in the capital.

• Մայիս 08, 2009

  Dashnak Member Quits Armenian Security Body

  Armen Rustamian, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), resigned from Armenia’s National Security Council on Thursday in accordance with the party’s recent withdrawal from the governing coalition.

• Ապրիլ 29, 2009

  Armenian Police Report Sharp Rise In Crime

  The Armenian police reported on Tuesday a sharp increase in the official number of crimes committed in Armenia this year, saying that it is primarily the result of improved crime registration.

• Ապրիլ 24, 2009

  Armenian Paper Sued By Kocharian’s Son

  A district court in Yerevan opened hearings Thursday on a libel suit filed by the younger son of President Robert Kocharian against Armenia’s leading opposition newspaper.