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<b>Vahe Grigoryan was released last night</b>
Vahe Grigoryan was released last night at around 19:00.The Court of Appeals made the decision to change the preventive measure towards attorney Vahe Grigoryan yesterday. Until then, a number of human rights...
Armenian Coalition Hastens Election Of New Ombudsman
Armenia’s governing parties stepped up on Wednesday their efforts to elect a new human rights ombudsman after being apparently scolded by President Robert Kocharian for parliament’s unexpected rejection of his candidate...
Attacks on the Press in 2005 - Armenia
Committee to Protect Journalists releases "Attacks on the Press report". Here we present the section related to Armenia. Despite recommendations from the Council of Europe and other international organizations, the...
Lawyer Marina Janoyan Was Attacked
Today at about 02:20 p.m. on the Aleq Manoukyan street, near the central building of the Yerevan State University a car tried to run over lawyer Marina Janoyan. The car pulled up abruptly and a 30-year-old tall and...
Residents of Buzant Went to Zakharyan
«The right of property is not recognized and defended in the Republic of Armenia». This was the poster with which the five families from the Buzand street organized an act of complaint opposite the Yerevan municipality...
Diaspora-Funded TV Denounced For Unmasking ‘Western Spies’
A television network sponsored by a U.S. philanthropist of Armenian descent and loyal to President Robert Kocharian faced on Friday an angry rebuttal of its apparent allegations that Armenia’s leading human rights...
Statement of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia
On February 4-6, 2006, for three days “Armenia”, “TV 5” and “ArmNews” TV companies, being under the control of the authorities, aired a piece, aimed at discrediting the activity of Helsinki Committee of Armenia. There...
Statement by President of the Yerevan Press Club Boris Navasardian
Since February 4, 2006 “Armenia”, “ArmNews” and “TV 5” TV channels repeatedly aired a piece with my participation, in which fragments of my interview were used. These fragments were cut out of the general context, there...
No Ombudsman Was Elected
Today in the National Assembly the elections of the Ombudsman took place with a closed poll. None of the two candidates (Armen Haroutyunyan and Ruben Torosyan) had the necessary number of votes. Armen Haroutyunyan was...
RA NA Chairman Arthur Baghdasaryan Addressed a Letter Today to PACE Chairman
RA NA Chairman Arthur Baghdasaryan addressed a letter today to PACE Chairman Rene van der Linden andCoE Secretary General Terry Devis, were expresses concern on the fact of barbaric distraction of Armenian medieval...