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Lori TV Editor-In-Chief Attacked in Vanadzor
A police expert criminologist later said that the photos taken by Avetisyan had been removed from the device...Read More »
Armenia Has No Effective Mechanisms to Protect Domestic Abuse Vuctims, Lawyer Says
Armenian police still do not consider domestic violence a crime. The situation is even worse when there are children involved, because it seems that law enforcement....Read More »
Jailed Oppositionist’s Family Released from Detention
Four of the detainees were members of Yeghnukyan’s family - his wife and three children, the other two were members of the Armenian Women’s Front movement Aghavni Sahakyan...Read More »
Yerevan Woman’s Life in Danger; State Has ‘No Mechanisms’ to Protect Her From Husband
According to the lawyer, the police have already stated several that they are powerless - “we can’t do anything; we do not have mechanisms; it's your problem and you...Read More »
Vanadzor Man Re-Arrested on Unreliable Evidence, Lawyers Claim
The father added that his lawyers were going to challenge the decision of Appeal Court judges Mher Arghamanyan, Manushak Petrosyan and Mkhitar Papoyan ...Read More »
Sevan Resident Reports Being Coerced to Confess in Letter to General Prosecutor
The one sitting next to the driver turned around and told me not to call them ‘guys.’ Then he squeezed my head between his palms...Read More »
No Criminal Case Over Attack on Armenian Journalists
At the same time, the company has stated that their employee, A. Varazyan, was unaware that his actions were directed against a journalists. The company management has ...Read More »
Armenian Human Rights Defenders Work in Inadequate Conditions, HRH Report Says
Rights and public interests activists have obviously faced not only Armenia’s faulty judicial system but also the obstructions created by a number of ...Read More »
One-Sided Prosecutions Year After Attacks on Protesters, Journalists: HRW
The police response was heavy-handed at times. At a July 29 protest in the neighborhood of the seized police station, police fired stun grenades into peaceful crowds...Read More »
Opposition Politician to Be Tried for Same Crimes as Sasna Tsrer Armed Group Members, Lawyer Says
Mezhlumyan believes the new charges against Ghukasyan to be unfounded as during the preliminary investigation they were refuted by evidence in the...Read More »