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Tigran Arakelyan’s State Of Health Is “Extremely Bad”
Court of first instance of Kentron and Norq-Marash districts has declined the motion of the defendant to change Tigran Arakelyan's preventive measure of arrest to the bail. All deputies of "Heritage" party of the...
Statement of representatives of the young society living in Europe
Statement of representatives of the young society living in Europe We, the undersigned and the representatives of the young society, living in Europe, want to express our deep concern on the illegal actions performed...
Today Declared A Day Of Mourning In Yerevan
Tehran-Yerevan airplane crashed Yesterday at 12:30 Armenian time TU-154 plane belonging to Iranian "Caspian Airlines" crashed during the flight from Tehran to Yerevan with 168 people on board, from which 153 were...
An Accusation Was Brought Against An Under-Aged
Today the police brought an accusation against 14 year old Herbert Gevorgyan who was a participant of a clash of July 1 in Yerevan centre. He was condemned under Criminal Code Article 258, 3-rd part, 1, 2 points "...
Journalistic Community Calls To Change The Measure Of Punishment Of "Haykakan Zhamanak" Chief Editor
On July 13 around 30 heads of media, journalistic organizations of Armenia and Mountainous Karabagh made a statement to support the Chief Editor of "Haykakan Zhamanak" daily Nikol Pashinian. As it has been reported, in...
Defence Minister is Responding
RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan has responded to the "Military service on crunches" article at www.new.csi.am/en/hr-reviews/2009/07/03/army. On July 7 he met Ashot Voskanyan who had been serving for more than 13...
Will arrest as a preventive measure be chosen for ANC activist?
Tomorrow, on July 5th, 72 hour term of detention of Tigran Arakelyan, representative of youth wing of Armenian National Congress will be expired. Most likely investigative body will submit a motion on choosing arrest as...
A group of young people were beaten in the center of Yerevan.
Today at about 19:30 near the café "Paris Coffee" a number of young people distributing leaflets informing about July 2 rally were beaten. As young people say the attackers were policemen in civil uniforms who possessed...
Editor-in-chief of “Haykakan Dzamanak” newspaper was arrested
Today the editor-in-chief of “Haykakan Dzamanak” newspaper Nikol Pashinyan appeared to RA General Prosecutor’s office, from where he was taken to Kentron police station. Three attorneys accompanied Pashinyan. After...
FIDH delegation finished its visit to Armenia
From June 25-28 the delegation of International Federation for Human rights (FIDH) comprised of the President of FIDH Ms. Souhayr Belhassen, Executive Director Mr. Antoine Bernard, Communication Director Mrs. Isabelle...