by Journalists for Human Rights | Feb 24, 2020 | Army
The new commander of the Karabakh Defense Army, Major-General Jalal Harutiunian, served as Abrahamian’s first deputy and chief of the army’s General Staff until now. Like his predecessors, Harutiunian, 45, is a decorated veteran of the 1991-1994 war with Azerbaijan....
by Journalists for Human Rights | Feb 24, 2020 | Freedom of Speech
Hrayr Tovmasian, the chairman of Armenia’s Constitutional Court, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in response to recent verbal attacks on him. Pashinian again lashed out at Tovmasian late last month in a continuing bitter dispute...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Feb 20, 2020 | Army
At nights of May 4, 2018, an unknown person committed a cruel act against the mother of 20-year-old soldier Arthur Gasparyan, who had died at the military base. After that, the soldier’s mother, Marine Gasparyan, felt as if she experienced her son’s death for...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Feb 12, 2020 | Army, News
The case of the murder of Private Karen Karapetyan, a soldier from Gyumri, has been in court since November, but the trial has not started yet. The excuses vary from court’s inability to provide notification, to inability of the legal successor of the victim to travel...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Feb 4, 2020 | Army
Vazgen Gyozalyan, who was drafted from the Chinchin village of Tavush region on February 1 of this year, did not go to the army. The parents did not take the “paper” from the military commissariat, they just wrote on the back of it: “The conscript needs...
