2026, 20 May, Wednesday

Young Protester’s Mother Forced By Police to File Missing Person Report

- They told my mom that the sixth division [of Armenia’s police] would come for me if she did not file a report. They scared and pressured her into writing it. They ...

Armenian Human Rights Defender’s Son Detained for Trying to Stand Up Against Police

The officers subsequently detained Barseghyan - who live-streamed the incident on Facebook and later refused to remove the recording from the website - on suspicion of...

Investigators Tell Sasna Tsrer Supporter It Is Her Fault She Was Attacked

Upon finding out that she believed she had been attacked for supporting the Sasna Tsrer group, she added, the investigators told her...

Police and Doctors Accomplices in Son’s Murder, Woman Claims

Police and Doctors Accomplices in Son’s Murder, Woman Claims

According to the woman, Ginosyan organized her son’s murder after losing their dispute at the Appeal Court and hearing her speak on TV against her usury activities...

Charges Against Sefilyan Based on Unsubstantiated Allegations, Lawyer Insists

In the above-mentioned interview, Sefilyan, who was the commander of the Shushi special military battalion during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, talked about Republican ...

Condition of Yerevan Transgender Women ‘Critical but Stable’ After Brutal Attack

- Her condition is currently critical but stable; she is still in the intensive care unit. We do not know for sure whether she is getting better or worse, but doctors estimate her...

Transgender Woman in Intensive Care After Brutal Beating

A transgender woman was left hospitalised after being brutally beaten up in her Yerevan apartment on Tuesday night, Lilit Martirosyan, the head of the Yerevan-based Right Side NGO that...

Prosecutor Evades Answering Important Question on March 1 Events

Prosecutor Evades Answering Important Question on March 1 Events

- We know that there were snipers; the first thing they should have done was to isolate those armed. None of the victims had weapons...

Yerevan Prosecutor Tries to Justify Deadly Use of Cheryomukha-7 on March 1

At the parliamentary hearings on the deadly post-election clashes of March 1-2, 2008, Karen Bisharyan, deputy chief of the department for especially important cases at the Armenian...

Investigation Underway After Mother and Daughter Jump Off Bridge in Yerevan

According to the ministry spokesperson, prior to the 3-day absence, the woman had neither warned her coworkers or employers that she would not...

Yerevan Police Use Disproportionate Force Against Protesters Condemning Morning Violence Against Oppositionists

Yerevan Police Use Disproportionate Force Against Protesters Condemning Morning Violence Against Oppositionists

We, those gathered outside the Yerevan City Hall, see no other way but to come here and demand that the Council of Elders is cleared from...

Nubarashen Residents Send Sewage Waste as Gift to Yerevan Mayor

Nubarashen Residents Send Sewage Waste as Gift to Yerevan Mayor

Female members of the ruling party, for their part, criticized the Yerkir Tsirani representatives’ behaviour as “unbecoming of an Armenian mother and an Armenian woman.”