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Special Investigation body recognized the complaint ungrounded
On April 16 at 10 o'clock the hearing of the complaint of the successors of Grigor Gevorgyan and Hovhannes Hovhannisyan killed on March 1 from the gun shot, as well as Samvel Harutyunyan died of brain injury, started in...
Acquitted for Lack of Corpus Delicti
Prosecution against young activists of Armenian National Congress Tigran Arakelyan, Herbert Gevorgyan and Sahak Muradyan is dropped and they are acquitted for of corpus delicti. Attorney Varduhi Elbakyan had entered a...
Suicide in Charencavan department of the Police
23 year old Vahan Khalafyan who was summoned to Charencavan Police station for interrogation as a suspect in the theft case, while being in the office of the office of the Head of precautions department has taken a...
Criminal Case for Beating the Reporter Dropped
Legal proceedings instituted for beating photo reporter Gagik Shamshyan and impeding his professional activities at the entrance to the Prosecutor General's Office on February 24 have been dropped. Shamshyan had...
Closing of the 37th FIDH Congress in Yerevan, Armenia
New challenges "Over the centuries, Armenia has stood proudly, without faltering, like a lighthouse shining a light of hope to guide the vessel of the future, through the tragic episodes of its history". Abdou Diouf, ...
Constitutional Court Session on Pashinyan Case Postponed
After announcing a break to convoke a procedural session the RA Constitutional Court made a decision to examine Nikol Pashinyan's case in written proceedings and appointed the next session on April 23.  Before the...
Declaration by FIDH member organisations in Armenia and in Turkey
Resolution of FIDH's 37th Congress FIDH's 37th Congress pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide and salutes the efforts of its member organisations in Armenia and in Turkey (Civil Society...
We Support Neither Party
"Existence of political prisoners is undeniable, I have visited them in prison myself, and I have met their families. How many they are I can't say, but they exist. The problem of political prisoners was the aim of our...
An appeal from the 37th FIDH Congress
Yerevan, 6 April 2010 - At the Opening Ceremony of the 37th FIDH Congress, FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen issued a call on behalf of the Congress for the immediate liberation of all political prisoners in Armenia....
Support to Relatives of Victims
While relatives of the March 1 victims were meeting the President of International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Souhayr Belhassen at the Civil Society Institute, activists supporting victims' relatives held an...