November, 2015

• 30 November

  

  Citizen Refuses to Participate in ‘Illegitimate’ Referendum, Demands Her Name Be Removed From Electoral List

  “This is a public statement on my deliberate decision not to take part in the elections; I refuse to be part of this process of weakening the state and do not feel responsible for any consequences arising from these elections...
• 27 November

  

  NSS Official Says ‘Crime Group’ Plotted ‘Monstrous Attacks’ against Citizens, Politicians

  Vardanyan has been assigned to lawyer Levon Baghdasaryan who is known for a number of high-profile cases. Baghdasaryan, in particular, defended “Iravunk” paper and its editor-in-chief Hovhannes Galajyan...
• 27 November

  

  High-Ranking Armenia Fund Official Admits Leadership ‘Keeps Pocketing’ Donations

  The Fund official went on to publicly claim that the facts presented in “To Donate or Not to Donate” were lies: “The thing is that this paper, one could say, is completely based on newspapers, which are strictly oppositional; their publications...
• 27 November

  

  Yerevan School Denies Beating of Syrian-Armenian Student, Urges Media ‘to Be Delicate’

  On a different note, from now own we urge you not to separate our Syrian-Armenian pupils from the others; it's unacceptable, especially considering the fact that the school has been successfully...
• 26 November

  

  Syrian-Armenian Student Attacked by Group of Schoolmates (Video)

  Speaking to the outlet's reporter, school headmaster Natalya Stepanyan claimed claimed she was “unaware of the incident.” “A Syrian-Armenian? I don't know, I've no idea...
• 26 November

  

  Alleged Murderer of Armenian Lawyer Believed to Have Had ‘Property Dispute’ With His Bank

  Poghosyan, officials said, is a client of the bank where the murdered lawyer used to work. According to preliminary information, the 54-year-old man had a property dispute with the bank and had...
• 26 November

  

  Verdict in Favor of Republican Lawmaker Upheld by Armenia’s Appeal Court

  The Armenian Court of Appeal on Tuesday, November 25, rejected a challenge filed by human rights activist, Head of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office Artur Sakunts against law ...
• 25 November

  

  Women’s Rights Activists March in Yerevan against Domestic Violence (Photo)

  The publicist added that the law should be adopted urgently since women's rights organizations are “unable to deal” with all the consequences of violence. “First of all, they can't manage to. And secondly, there are issues ...
• 25 November

  

  Security Forces Uncover Organized Crime Group in Yerevan

  Arthur Vardanyan, as well as nine other members of the group who were at the house at the moment of the search were arrested, NSS stated, adding that a criminal case has been initiated pursuant to parts 1 and 2 ...
• 25 November

  

  Young Lawyer Fatally Shot in Downtown Yerevan

  A criminal case has been launched over the killing. Meanwhile, the official website of the Armenian Police reported today that through operational intelligence measures law enforcement officers have determined...