by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 28, 2018 | News
The General Prosecutor’s Office has withdrawn the appeal against the chairman of the NGO “Veles”, human rights activist Marina Poghosyan. On May 30, 2011, Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan of Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction, acquitted Marina...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 26, 2018 | News
General Levon Yeranosian, the controversial former commander of Armenian interior troops, could be prosecuted over the use of force against anti-government protests in Yerevan last spring, it emerged on Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the Special Investigative Service...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 26, 2018 | News
Democratization is essential for peace and stability in the South Caucasus, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit held at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday. “I come from a region where unfortunately bloody...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 25, 2018 | Corruption, News
Robert Kocharyan, who is accused of overthrowing the constitutional order on March 1, 2008, and his son Sedrak Kocharyan, have begun a real trial attack. Kocharyan, the second President of Armenia filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan demanding...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 24, 2018 | News
Citing his bloc’s landslide victory in the mayoral race in Yerevan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Monday that fresh parliamentary elections must held in Armenia “very soon.” Official results of Sunday’s municipal elections showed the My Step bloc garnering 81...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 20, 2018 | News
Artist Arayik Petrosyan, who got concussion and was treated for three months in hospital as a result of a severe beatings on March 1, 2008, is convinced that police operations on March 1 were organized “at the highest level”. “To say that Kocharyan...
