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Azerbaijan Extradites NKR Defense Army Soldier
The soldier's handover was carried out under the auspices of the Nagorno-Karabakh mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), near the village of Bash Karvend...Read More »
Infuriated Citizen Tells Armenian President to ‘Change Yourself, Not the Constitution’
“You should change yourself! Half of my family has fled [the country]; what should I do? Do you want us to turn into terrorists? […] I have nothing to lose,” the man says...Read More »
33-Year-Old Armenian Judge Declared Over $700 Thousand in Assets
Judge Ani Harutyunyan, for example, is the daughter of former deputy chief of Armenia's National Security Service Grigor Harutyunyan. The 33֊year-old lawyer was appointed Administrative Court judge ..Read More »
Armenian Soldier Beaten by Higher Ranking Officer Left ‘Unrecognizable,’ Relative Says
Harutyunyan told the paper that neither the military unit leadership nor the hospital informed the conscript;s family about the incident. If it weren't for fellow soldiers, she said, the family would still not know where Arthur was...Read More »
Two Armenian Soldiers Dead in Karabakh
Two Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army conscripts, Vahe Vanoyan, 20, and Mikayel Torosyan, 19, were fatally wounded by Azerbaijani fire on November 12 at around 9 pm in a military unit deployed in th...Read More »
Azerbaijan Repatriates 73-Year-Old Armenian Civilian
The handover of Lusine Abovyan, a 73-year-old resident of the village of Koti in the Armenian Tavush province, took place at the international border between the Azerbaijani town of Gazakh and the Armenian town of Ijevan under the auspices of...Read More »
Prisoner Claims He Was Beaten by Jail Officers After Complaining Against ‘False Charges’
According to SIS investigator G. Begoyan, the prisoner said that after refusing to comply with the demands of the deputy prison chief and the operations department member, he committed an act of self-harm by injecting...Read More »
Armenian Captive’s Relatives Don’t Believe She Could Have Crossed Into Azerbaijan Accidentally: Press
According to the interviewee, the house is located 1.5 km from the border; besides, there's a trench along the border. “She couldn't have crossed that trench; she's an old woman. Even I wouldn't be able to cross it, it's so deep...Read More »
Armenian Parliament Passes Controversial Bill on Voting with ID Cards
Lawmaker Tigran Urikhanyan, in turn, proposed to install electronic devices at polling stations which would record the participation of citizens with ID cards, while ANC MP Nikol Pashinyan suggested to...Read More »
Armenian Prisoners Deprived of Bread After Rejecting Prison Meals
They were told, 'If you don't want meals, you won't get bread either.' A staff member of Armenia's Human Rights Defender's office witnessed this conversation,” the source stressed...Read More »