by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 30, 2020 | News, Torture
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Azerbaijan guilty of brutally torturing an Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani captivity more than nine years ago. Manvel Saribekian, a 20-year-old resident of an Armenian village very close to the Azerbaijani...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 17, 2020 | News
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s office on Friday confirmed reports that he has received a letter from the jailed man who led a deadly attack on the Armenian parliament in 1999. The office declined to disclose the content of the letter sent by Nairi Hunanian. An...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 17, 2020 | News
Georgi Kutoyan, who headed Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) in the final years of former President Serzh Sarkisian’s rule, was found shot to death in Yerevan on Friday. A spokeswoman for the Investigative Committee, Naira Harutiunian, reported in the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 15, 2020 | News
A law-enforcement body interrogated Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday as part of its criminal investigations into his and other officials’ leaked phone conversations that caused an uproar in Armenia in 2018. In one of those conversations secretly recorded in...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 15, 2020 | News
Prosecutors agreed on Wednesday to the release from prison of Manvel Grigorian, a retired Armenian army general facing a string of criminal charges, following a reportedly serious deterioration of his health condition. A Yerevan court judge presiding over the ongoing...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 27, 2019 | News, Social Rights
At today’s session of the Government of Armenia it was decided to repeal Resolution 1818-A of the Government of the Republic of Armenia dated August 8, 2019 on “Agreeing to Grant Community Property Land Ownership with Free Property Rights”. This...
