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8 Years Have Passed Since A1+ TV Company Closure
  The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression, Yerevan Press Club, Internews Media Support NGO, Media Diversity Institute-Armenia, Armenian Helsinki Committee,...
Admitted as Contradicting the RA Constitution
The Constitutional Court investigated the applications of oppositional leaders Karapet Roubinyan and Aram Sargsyan and decided that the provision of the Criminal Procedure Code, according to which a criminal case is...
More Than 18 Million Drams Was Collected
The benevolent concert of Ian Gillan and Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra collected 18 mln 327 thousand drams. Mediamax informational agency will pass all the money to the fund established for the musical school #6 in...
Registration for participation to FIDH forum is open till 2 April
The forum, entitled "JUSTICE: New Challenges - the Right to an Effective Remedy before an Independent Tribunal", will take place in Yerevan  from 6th to 8th April 2010. Taking into consideration the interest of...
Judgment Annulled by Civil Court of Appeals
RA Administrative Court of Appeals decided to entirely annul the verdict adopted last November by the Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative communities' court of general jurisdiction against "Ogostos Agency" LTD, the...
A 26-year old was tortured at the police
On March 24 a 26-year old inhabitant of Artashat town was illegally brought from his home to the police of Artashat. Two policemen, providing no notice or reasons forced him to sit in their car and brought him to the...
FIDH Vice President and President of Human Rights Centre Viasna and his three colleagues arrested during a peaceful protest against death penalty
Paris-Geneva, March 23, 2010. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT),...
Administrative Court Rejected Teghut Appeal
Yerevan Administrative Court chaired by Judge Artsruni Mirzoyan rejected on March 24 the EcoDar NGO's appeal against RA Government. The court, though accepting the appeal for consideration, decided that the non-...
“Let Your Hammer Break, Unfair Judge!”
After the trial the Teghut Protection Group, "Heritage" party youth, representatives of a number of environmental organizations held a protest action in the court yard. They organized a symbolic funeral of the RA...
Public Participation Restricted
On March 18 in Geneva (Switzerland), the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee discussed communication from Transparency International Anti-corruption Center, Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office and "Ecodar"...