November, 2013

• 13 November

  

  Justice Minister Avoids Responding to Allegations of Police Violence

  Asked by reporters today whether Shant Harutyunyan was subjected to violence, RA Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan said he visited Harutyunyan and...
• 13 November

  

  Protestor Decides to Remove Stitches on His Mouth, End Sit-In

  An Etchmiadzin man who two days ago sewed his mouth shut protesting outside the presidential palace with his wife and young children...
• 13 November

  

  Majority of Armenian MPs Didn’t Participate in Karabakh Recognition Vote

  A bill to recognize the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh was put to a vote in Armenia's National Assembly today.
• 13 November

  

  40 Soldiers Poisoned in Ararat Military Unit: Newspaper

  Mass poisoning has been recorded in a military unit in the town of Ararat, reports local daily Haykakan Zhamanak.
• 13 November

  

  Shant Harutyunyan Won’t Appeal Court Decision to Imprison Him

  Detained during clashes with riot police in Yerevan on Nov. 5, Shant Harutyunyan will not be appealing the two-month pre-trial detention the court...
• 13 November

  

  Parliamentary Speaker on How Re-Elected Control Chamber Chairperson Must Work

  Ishkhan Zakaryan was re-elected as Chair of the Control Chamber of Armenia.
• 13 November

  

  ‘Why People Die in Prison’: Officials Explain When Prisoners Undergo Surgery

  Tavros Voskanyan, currently in Nubarashen penitentiary, wants to be moved to the Hospital for Convicts as he claims he has foreign bodies in...