Oppositionist Accused of Assaulting Police Officer Was Trying to Break Up Fight, Witness Says
After the incident, the witness went on, he was taken to the hospital where he saw the supposed victim, Gegham Khachatryan, without any injury to his face. “I went up to him and told him that his colleagues had beaten...
Witness Testifies to Hearing Police Officers Use Profanities During Brawl with Opposition Activists
Safaryan has been behind bars for nearly ten months; he was arrested on New Year's Eve after a scuffle with law enforcement officers on Yerevan’s Freedom Square and was subsequently charged with assaulting police ...
Armenian Armed Group Insist They Had Nothing to Do with Killing of Policeman
Police spokesperson Ashot Aharonyan wrote on Facebook Saturday evening that 30-year-old officer of police forces Yuri Tepanosyan was shot by a sniper while sitting in a car parked some 400 meters from...
Prominent Armenian Oppositionist Arrested Over Alleged Takeover Plot
Zhirayr Sefilyan, the leader of opposition movement Founding Parliament, was arrested by Yerevan police Monday for allegedly organizing illegal purchase and possession of weapons and ammunition and plotting to seize...
The Victims of March 1, 2008
10 people were killed on the streets of central Yerevan on March 1–2, 2008: 2 police officers and 8 civilians.