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Yerevan Judge Reminds Police Officers About Their Duties
As far as I understand you work for the police and not a taxi service. When you are ordered to see people home, you should not just ...Read More »
Armenian Oligarch Who ‘Owns No Businesses’ Might Be Evading Taxes: Press
During his visit to the factory, Karapetyan was given a tour by Republican lawmaker, oligarch Samvel Aleksanyan. From a legal point of view, Aleksanyan has no ...Read More »
Drastic Changes in Convicts’ Hospital Connected to Appointment of New Chief, Lawyer Says
- Officers have been locking the doors of the inmates’ rooms, depriving them of the opportunity to ventilate the area; the inmates are nearly suffocating in...Read More »
Yerevan Court Denies Petition for Exhumation of Soldier’s Corpse
The bullet hole on Manucharyan’s trousers, the expert added, definitely testifies that his death was a premeditated murder, since Manucharyan would have been unable to commit...Read More »
Criminal Case Against Abusive Husband Dismissed Due to Reconciliation
Zara Hovhannisyan, coordinator of the Yerevan-based Coalition to Stop Violence against Women NGO, witnessed a young woman being beaten in a central Yerevan street ...Read More »
Sasna Tsrer Members Deprived of Free Movement, Lawyers Claim
Penitentiary officials have installed locks on the prisoners’ cell doors, depriving them of the opportunity to use the washbasin and the toilet ...Read More »
European Court Rules Armenia Violated Citizen’s Right to Fair Trial
- The implementation of the ruling is a part of a fair trial. If the ruling is not carried out, then what good are courts? Yes, this is mainly a ruling against the ...Read More »
Armenian Villagers Block Road to Protest Continuous Water Cutoffs
The idea that the drinking water is being given to greenhouses has been planted by provocateurs to stir up the situation. We do have a water issue, but it does not...Read More »
71% of Civil Cases in Syunik Courts Are Loan Disputes, Study Shows
According to the program coordinator, around 20-30 court sessions on loans are held in the province daily, and “every other Syunik citizen is under debts and loans...Read More »
Yerevan Court to Hear Appeal Against ‘1000 Drams Law’
- These 1000 drams are a part of our property since, according the judicial precedents of the European Court of Human Rights' case law, a person’s salary is his/her property...Read More »