“Armentel” Turned To Human Rights Defender

[19.01.2005]

RA Human Rights Defender adopted more than 1800 petitions and complaints 1345 of
which were received in written form. There are about 710 complaints from marzes,
501 of which are written complaints. 555 complaints were adopted for
administration and 506 were turned down, rights, freedoms and defense options
were represented to 136 competitors, 95 complaints were delivered to
corresponding institutions.

These complaints contain 12 collective applications from 1420 citizens, 1200 of
which had previously applied to «Armentel» company in connection with the breach
of their working rights because of prolonging «Armentel» licence. 85 complaints
were positively resolved, thus 24% of complaints were satisfied. Most of the
complaints were received from institutions of local governing - 310, courts
-205, ministry of social security - 180.


http://new.csi.am/eng/index1.php?goto=news&id=1893

Defendant on Assault on “Haikakan Zhamanak” Correspondent Pleaded Guilty


[20.01.2005]

On January 19 at the court of primary jurisdiction of Center and Nork-Marash
communities of Yerevan the hearings of the case of assault on Arman Galoyan, the
correspondent of “Haikakan Zhamanak” daily, continued. As it has been reported,
the incident occurred on September 23, 2004, when the journalist was
interviewing the owners of the trade stalls demolished around one of the Yerevan
markets. The investigation identified one of the assaulters, impeding the work
of the correspondent of “Haikakan Zhamanak”, to be the market supervisor Armen
Vardanian. It also appeared that a month before the incident this same Armen
Vardanian beat two Yerevan residents next to the same market. The two cases were
united into one litigation, and Vardanian was charged on these two episodes: by
Article 164 (“Obstruction of legitimate professional activities of journalist”)
and 258 (“Public disorder”) of the RA Criminal Code. The defendant failed to be
present at opening session of the trial on December 20, and the court ruled to
bring him to court by force (see YPC Weekly Newsletter, December 17-23, 2004).



http://new.csi.am/eng/index1.php?goto=news&id=1894

Head of Armenian Aryan Union Arrested

[25.01.2005]

Yesterday in the Yerevan Prosecutor’s office Head of Armenian Aryan Union Armen
Avetisyan was arrested. The arresting sanction was given by Hrachya Hochannisyan
– Judge of the Court of First Instance of the communities Kentron and
Nork-Marash. Armen Avetisyan is charged with the second part of the Article N226
of the RA Criminal Code: “Causing of national, racial or religion hostility with
violation threat”. By the way, the Article foresees imprisonment from 3 up to 6
years. But in some circles it is considered that the cause of Armen Avetisyan’s
Arrest may be other. Let us remind you that he had promised up to the end of the
year 2005 to make public the list of the Armenian high-ranked homosexualists.



http://new.csi.am/eng/index1.php?goto=news&id=1895

PACE Criticizes Armenian Occupation of Azerbaijani Lands

[25.01.2005]

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved on Tuesday a
controversial resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh that criticizes ethnic Armenian
forces for occupying considerable parts of Azerbaijan's territory years after
the end of the separatist conflict.


http://new.csi.am/eng/index1.php?goto=news&id=1896