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Award to Mariam Sukhudyan
On March 10 the US Ambassador Mary Jovanovich will award civil activist Mariam Sukhudyan with a medal of "Brave Woman". The ceremony will take place at the US embassy in Armenia. Mariam Sukhudyan is an activist of the...
The answer from the Minister of Justice
Minister of Justice Gevorg Danielyan replied to the letter sent on February 3 by the Group of Public Monitors implementing supervision over the criminal executive institutions and bodies of the Ministry of Justice of RA...
Tendency to Silence Reporters Continues
The book "Violence, Pressure and Legal Actions against Reporters and Media Outlets in Armenia in 2008-2009: Cases and Analysis" published by "Investigative Journalists" NGO with the assistance of OSCE Yerevan Office,...
Arman Danielyan participates in the Russian human rights activist Aleksey Sokolov’s trial as an international observer
Arman Danielyan, Chairman of Civil Society Institute, representative of International Federation for Human Rights, participates in the Russian human rights activist Aleksey Sokolov's trial as an international observer,...
The court has examined both the prosecutors' and the attorneys' appeals
On March 3 the Court of Appeal has examined the appeals for the Haykakan Zhamanak editor-in-chief Nikol Pashinyan's case. The court has examined both the prosecutors' and the attorneys' appeals.    On January 19 the...
A1+ will file a suit in the Court of Cassation again
On February 23 the Constitutional Court recognized the Cassation Court's decision as illegal. After examining the claim filed by "A1+" representatives, the Constitutional Court reminded that it had already recognized...
Violence against Photojournalist
Photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan was today subjected to violence while photographing prosecutors arriving at the Prosecutors' Board Session. He did not apply to doctors and is not going to. He says he has intense earache...
Minister Reconfirms His Statement
Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan expressed an opinion that editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak daily Nikol Pashinyan's sentence term, convicted to 7 years of imprisonment, has to be halved (for the period not carried yet)....
Appeal in Pashinyan’s Case
Lusine Sahakyan and Yervand Varosyan, attorneys of Nikol Pashinyan, chief editor of Haykakan Zhamanak, appealed today to the Court of Appeal against the January 19 decision of the Kentron and Nork-Marash court of...
Participants of the March underwent violence
In Yerevan the police have again imposed violence against the participants of the march organized by Armenian National Congress. Yesterday's march of ANC was devoted to "Against 2008 February 19 faked elections" and was...