Number of Armenia Swine Flu Fatalities Reaches 16
As reported by Armenia's Ministry of Health on Monday, January 18, both of the victims had been hospitalized on January 9 in critical condition, with bilateral pneumonia. ...
Armenian Convict Appeals Termination of Proceedings Against Top Prison Officials
Recall, Shamiryan, a former Hrazdan inmate, had filed a complaint with Armenia's Special Investigation Service against the prison officials, claiming to have had come to an agreement with Babayan over ...
Opposition Activist Ends Hunger Strike
Safaryan had gone into a hunger strike Friday evening, demanding to be transferred to an individual cell, and, as stated by Pashinyan, prison authorities have met his demands. “Safaryan has no complaints over the conditions in his new cell,” the lawmaker wrote...
Armenia Swine Flu Death Toll Continues to Rise
As of January 15 official statistics, a total number of 992 people with acute respiratory infections have applied for hospital treatment, 873 of them – minors. 502 of the patients are suffering from pneumonia...
Armenian Opposition Activists Go Into Another Hunger Strike in Jail
New Armenia reports that Gevorg Safaryan has now been taken to a punishment cell, while Kyureghyan has been joined by several other hunger-strikers in his “very small” cell, “which has led to intolerable conditions for the inmates....
Yerevan Residents Willing to Take 'Drastic Measures' to Fight for Their Rights
As for the proposed alternative apartments, Geravetyan said they were in a newly constructed building on Pushkin street which the tenants of nearby buildings have continuously been protesting against...
Teenage Opposition Activist Attacked in Yerevan
16-year-old Hovhannes Harutyunyan, a child from a large family of a Karabakh war veteran living in difficult social conditions, has sustained serious bodily injuries, New Armenia said...
Court Official Promises to 'Resolve Issue' as Mothers of Dead Armenian Soldiers Scuffle with Bailiffs
Poladyan once again agreed that court officials should have had warned the women; however, he added that he had to listen to the other side also “to understand the reason for their failure to notify you properly...
Election Commission Member Denied Salary for Refusing to Sign 'Fabricated' Referendum Deed
Currently Sardaryan is trying to get the salary she is owed for working on December 6. Officials at the territorial election commission have told the woman she would not receive any money unless she signed the deeds, which Sardaryan finds “ridiculous...
Family of Dead Armenian Prisoner Finds Suicide Implausible
The 21-year-old man, as stated by HCAV, participated in a might on December 21, 2015 in the Armenian town of Armavir. He then turned himself in to the police and was arrested on the spot. Three days later,..
Armenian Oppositionist Threatened with Jail: Press
The members of the opposition movement, however, are convinced the real reason behind the threat is Founding Parliament's recent statement calling on Armenians to “take up arms in self-defense, if necessary...
Swine Flu Death Toll Reaches 7 in Armenia; Disease Subsiding, Health Ministry Insists
In the last two sentences of the statement the ministry reported: “The 7th death has been recorded. Diagnosis and other details will become clear after an examination....