January, 2016

• 18 January

  

  Opposition Activist Ends Hunger Strike

  Safaryan had gone into a hunger strike Friday evening, demanding to be transferred to an individual cell, and, as stated by Pashinyan, prison authorities have met his demands. “Safaryan has no complaints over the conditions in his new cell,” the lawmaker wrote...
• 16 January

  

  Armenia Swine Flu Death Toll Continues to Rise

  As of January 15 official statistics, a total number of 992 people with acute respiratory infections have applied for hospital treatment, 873 of them – minors. 502 of the patients are suffering from pneumonia...
• 16 January

  

  Armenian Opposition Activists Go Into Another Hunger Strike in Jail

  New Armenia reports that Gevorg Safaryan has now been taken to a punishment cell, while Kyureghyan has been joined by several other hunger-strikers in his “very small” cell, “which has led to intolerable conditions for the inmates....
• 15 January

  

  Yerevan Residents Willing to Take ‘Drastic Measures’ to Fight for Their Rights

  As for the proposed alternative apartments, Geravetyan said they were in a newly constructed building on Pushkin street which the tenants of nearby buildings have continuously been protesting against...
• 15 January

  

  Teenage Opposition Activist Attacked in Yerevan

  16-year-old Hovhannes Harutyunyan, a child from a large family of a Karabakh war veteran living in difficult social conditions, has sustained serious bodily injuries, New Armenia said...
• 14 January

  

  Court Official Promises to ‘Resolve Issue’ as Mothers of Dead Armenian Soldiers Scuffle with Bailiffs

  Poladyan once again agreed that court officials should have had warned the women; however, he added that he had to listen to the other side also “to understand the reason for their failure to notify you properly...
• 13 January

  

  Election Commission Member Denied Salary for Refusing to Sign ‘Fabricated’ Referendum Deed

  Currently Sardaryan is trying to get the salary she is owed for working on December 6. Officials at the territorial election commission have told the woman she would not receive any money unless she signed the deeds, which Sardaryan finds “ridiculous...
• 13 January

  

  Family of Dead Armenian Prisoner Finds Suicide Implausible

  The 21-year-old man, as stated by HCAV, participated in a might on December 21, 2015 in the Armenian town of Armavir. He then turned himself in to the police and was arrested on the spot. Three days later,..
• 13 January

  

  Armenian Oppositionist Threatened with Jail: Press

  The members of the opposition movement, however, are convinced the real reason behind the threat is Founding Parliament's recent statement calling on Armenians to “take up arms in self-defense, if necessary...
• 12 January

  

  Swine Flu Death Toll Reaches 7 in Armenia; Disease Subsiding, Health Ministry Insists

  In the last two sentences of the statement the ministry reported: “The 7th death has been recorded. Diagnosis and other details will become clear after an examination....