November, 2016

• 30 November

  

  Police Representative Justifies Officers’ Use of Excessive Force Against Protesters in Court

  Commenting on Varosyan's claim that police officers had not hindered the protest “but simply moved it a little further away from the presidential office,” Revazyan said; “A person's action at a specific place has a specific addressee...
• 29 November

  

  Armenian Investigators Banning Public Monitors from Visiting Prisoners

  Larisa Minasyan, the head of the Open Society Foundations-Armenia, for her part, also condemned the introduction of the bans, observing that not even in 2008․․.
• 29 November

  

  School in Armenian Village Evacuated Due to Fire

  Vardenis village head Kamo Petrosyan, for his part, told Epress.am that they were using diesel fuel to heat the old school building. “We're lucky it has not gotten too cold yet. I met with the governor the other day, and...
• 29 November

  

  Assault Suspect Stabbed While Partying After Badly Beating Wife

  Gevorg Sargsyan is among the three defendants in a trial which concerns the 2014 beating of Nagorno-Karabakh war veteran Vardan Tumanyan, who died in hospital the following day. Several months ago, the assault suspect ...
• 29 November

  

  Ex-Soldier Jailed for False Terror Reports Pardoned by Armenian President

  Davit Hakobyan, a 27-year-old former contract serviceman who had been sentenced to a year and six months in prison for reporting false bomb threats to police, has been pardoned by Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan,..
• 28 November

  

  Assault Suspect Who Beat Wife in Broad Daylight Taken to Hospital (Updated)

  “He has committed another crime while out on own recognizance, thus violating the conditions of the release,” Tigran Muradyan, a lawyer for the deceased's wife, told Epress.am on Monday....
• 28 November

  

  Armenian Soldier in Critical Condition After Being Shot in Head

  Aznavur Baleyan, a military conscript serving in a Nagorno-Karabakh unit, is in critical but stable condition after being shot in the head on November 22 during an argument with a fellow serviceman, News.am reports,..
• 28 November

  

  Broken Cell Window in Yerevan Prison Replaced Only After Ombudsman’s Intervention

  Ararat Khandoyan is the brother of Nagorno-Karabakh war veteran Arayik Khandoyan, one of the three dozen members of the “Sasna Tsrer” anti-government group that seized a Yerevan police station in July to demand Armenian...
• 28 November

  

  Yerevan Woman Bleeds to Death after Being Stabbed by Intimate Partner

  Aram Mnatsakanyan, a 34-year-old native of the town of Artashat, during an argument sparked by jealousy, Shamshyan.com wrote today. “Before the argument at their apartment, [the couple] had gotten drunk at some club [...] ...
• 27 November

  

  Armenia Failed to Protect Conscript’s Right to Life, ECHR Rules

  The investigating authority, while having eyewitness evidence suggesting that there had been no obvious acts of physical abuse in respect of Suren Muradyan during the argument of 21 July 2002,...