Decision-Making Power in Appointing and Terminating Judges Should Not Belong to the President: Nils Muiznieks
Speaking to Epress.am, Lawyer Vahe Grigoryan stated that although the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner’s report has no binding force, it is in an important position for cultivating an approach...
Residents of Northern Avenue Buildings Protest In Front of Court (Video)
The residents stated that there is a large number of homeless people in Armenia and the government should be building homes for them; instead, they are busy destroying the buildings on Northern Avenue...
Residents of Old Northern Avenue Buildings to Protest Continued Eviction Methods
According to Vardan Geravetyan, Local Developers Company owner Samvel Mayrapetyan, who is a close associate of the RA second president Robert Kocharyan, has appealed to the court, demanding the eviction of the residents...
“No to Patriarchy,” “Repoliticize March 8”: March in Yerevan In Honor of International Women’s Day (PHOTO, VIDEO)
The march moving through downtown Yerevan received various responses from people - shock, enthusiasm, ridicule - but there was nearly no indifference. Many passersby took out their phones to record the march, some...
Serzh Sargsyan Suspends Judge Who Issued Verdicts Against Police
The administrative proceedings were related to three cases between police and citizens who had organized a sit-in in front of the Yerevan City Hall in 2013 after the protest movement against the...
Human Rights Defender’s Appeal Rejected: Prosecutor Justifies Use of Force
The latter consequently appealed the decision, while today, March 6, the Court of General Jurisdiction of Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun administrative districts, representated by Judge Levon Avetisyan...
Court Hearing Convenes Without Plaintiff, Defendant, and Lawyer
Recall, at the start of the June 12 hearing into the case of Shant Harutyunyan and his friends, Kyureghyan climbed onto a car outside the courthouse and shot rounds from what seemed to be an air pistol in the...
“I Have Always Been Against Maidans”; Gagik Tsarukyan Leaves Politics
I no longer have any connection to BHK. In a short while you will elect a new leader, new executive bodies, and henceforth the party’s destiny is in your hands. This is my final decision...
Court Continues to Hand Verdicts In Favor of Hate Spreading Paper
Instead, Judge Ruben Nersisyan handed a verdict where the plaintiffs had to pay 150,000 AMD to the paper and 150,000 AMD to the paper's editor-in-chief Hovhannes Galajyan in compensation for his lawyer costs...
Police Barricaded Sidewalk In Front Of Presidential Palace From Mothers of Dead Soldiers (VIDEO)
- Turns out, the Ombudsman’s office is a formality. Even the Human Rights Defender's rights are being violated, said dead soldier Valery Muradyan’s mother, Nana Muradyan...
Gyumri Murder Case: “Russia Does Not Respect the Territorial Integrity of Armenia”
- Moreover, since the Constitution of Armenia has supreme legal force in Armenia, in no way can the range of its power be reduced or be revoked ‘in certain cases’, says the statement by the Union of Informed Citizens...
Child Custody Battle Continues In Court: Judge Asked to Leave Aside Presumptions
Edison Adyan was also present at today’s court session. He motioned to participate in the case because the issue was related to him. In his speech Adyan said that Nikoghosyan never called or...