May, 2015

• 27 May

  

  Matter of Granting Asylum to Iraqi Yazidis “Not on Armenia’s Agenda”, Deputy Foreign Minister Says

  The issue of granting asylum in Armenia to Yazidi refugees who have been forced to flee their homes in Northern Iraq to escape a jihadist onslaught by the Islamic State “is not even on the agenda,” Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister...
• 27 May

  

  Children From Armenian Orphanages Engaged in Forced Begging: Opposition MP

  - They take the kids and turn them into beggars for a day wage. You can see such kids on, for example, Abovyan Street. I have personally seen a 5-year-old child engaged in begging alongside a woman. When I asked the...
• 27 May

  

  Police Officers During Protest in Yerevan More Than Double the Number of Participants

  Apart from the journalists and Nelly Harutyunyan, member of Public Monitoring Group at the Detention Facilities of the RA, only 1-2 persons had come to the protest action on the opposite sidewalk of the RA presidential residence...
• 27 May

  

  Armenian Soldier Accused of Humiliating a Deceased Fellow

  Armenian soldier, senior gunner D. Harutyunyan has been arrested in the criminal case launched in connection with the death of conscript Harutyun Hambaryan that occurred on May 8 at an army base in Nagorno-Karabakh...