Today, the journalists of Kapan who had an appointment with the CEO of the Dino Gold Mining Company and had gone to interview him went through a strict check outside the company. The respective workers informed at the entrance that they should test the journalists’ intoxication level, only after which [...]
According to the information of www.aravot.am, cases of the appellate and supreme courts of the Republic of Armenia are interrogated in the National Security Service (NSS). Although the NSS avoids answering who those judges are, but according to our information, judges Varuzhan Abelyan and Lyova Grigoryan were summoned to NSS [...]
Hacker Georg Avanesov case was heard at the trial court of the Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts presided by Judge Armen Khachatryan today. “This case is unprecedented also in the whole world. Perhaps computer crimes are committed, but in the courts of the Republic of Armenia this is first such [...]
Harutyun Mesropyan, an expert in government, explains the attacks on the DIY club in recent days by the internal political situation. “Why was the issue of sexual minorities stirred up two days after the election and a week after the victory in Mashtots Park?” the expert in government raised these [...]
On May 15, another court session on Artak Nazaryan’s death started, but actually didn’t take place in Ijevan. At first, Judge Samvel Mardanyan postponed the session for 10 minutes, since the accused, Harutik Kirakosyan, who is not under arrest and continues his statutory service, had not been brought to the [...]
Hamlet Avalyan, the head of the staff secretariat at the regional administration of Tavush, was put, along with two heads of polling station commissions of Ijevan, on probation for 3 years for rigging the results of the election for the mayor of Ijevan on December 16, 2007, according to Article [...]
Hrant Bagratyan advised residents of Martuni during a rally of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), “When Serzh comes, take your shoe off and throw it at him, they did the same to Bush.” Levon Ter-Petrossian called the government “stupid,” saying that they had been stupid already, going to restaurants and [...]
Does the National Commission on TV and Radio (NCTR) accept the criticism of the Human Rights Defender that the commission hasn’t offered antimonopoly guarantees provided for by the law by omission, hasn’t performed supervising functions to prevent monopolization of the broadcasting market? “It is an incomprehensible accusation. I think that [...]
Georgi Avanesov, no. 1 hacker of Armenia, was not brought from Yerevan-Kentron Correctional Institution to the trial court of the administrative districts of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun. A court session on the criminal case opened against him was set for 2 p.m. The criminal case was under consideration of Judge Armen [...]
Freedom House urges Armenian authorities to conduct an immediate, independent investigation into a mob attack against the offices of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (HCA), a leading human rights organization, and the failure of police forces to calm the crowd or intervene when the situation began to turn violent. A group [...]
Authorities Should Protect Free Speech; Secure Film Screening (Berlin) – The authorities should immediately conduct a thorough investigation into an attack against a leading human rights organization inArmenia’s northern town ofVanadzor, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 16, 2012, at approximately 11:00 a.m. a group of about 200 people [...]
www.aravot.am inquired from Police Colonel Hovhannes Kocharyan, the chief of the passport and visa department of the Police of the Republic of Armenia, whether he thought that the claims of the opposition – Armenian National Congress (ANC) leader Levon Ter-Petrossian, in particular, thinks so – that voting lists had been [...]
The measures taken to solve the issues concerning the authority of the police during the electoral process were on the agenda of the discussion In the Run-up to the Election. During the meeting with participation of the representatives of the OSCE Yerevan Office, the European Union and parties, Chief [...]
“It is funny. What have they done for the past 5 years to do anything for the next 5 years? It is shameless, they could have chosen at least a different motto,” the aunt of a soldier who had died in the army under peaceful conditions said during a conversation [...]
The preliminary court session on the lawsuit of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office human rights organization against Vladimir Gasparyan, the Chief of Police of the Republic of Armenia, at the law court of Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts presided by Artavazd Sukoyan ended today. The trial was set [...]
On April 10, 2012 “Foundation against Violation of Law” NGO organized an event “Maragha – the 20th anniversary”, which was dedicated to the anniversary of the implementation of another act of genocide byAzerbaijan towards Armenian people in village Maragha, NKR. On April 10, 1992 Maragha village was attacked by regular army [...]
www.aravot.am has talked about the persecutions against blogger Hovhannes Ishkhanyan for his book The Day of Discharge many times. Particularly, the law-enforcement agencies tried to censor the work of the young blogger, to summon Hovhannes to the military police for interrogation etc. www.aravot.am inquired from Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan [...]
The Special Investigation Service confirmed the information of www.aravot.am, according to which an investigation had been launched against Gor Khachatryan, the chief of the medical service at Nubarashen Correctional Institution, based on the complaint of Ararat Muradkhanyan, a prisoner condemned to life imprisonment, serving his sentence at the correctional institution. [...]
A working consultation presided by Vladimir Gasparyan, the Chief of Police of the Republic of Armenia, was convened today in regard to the upcoming National Assembly election. Vladimir Gasparyan, the Chief of Police of theRepublicofArmenia, said that they had been warned about inaccuracies in the lists and other things. He [...]
In the history of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict, abounding in numerous facts of atrocity and vandalism byAzerbaijan, the events in thevillageofMaraghaof the NKR Martakert region are one of the most extreme manifestations of sadism and barbarity ever known to humanity. On April 10, 1992, after a three-hour preparatory bombardment, the subunits [...]
