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15:04 20/11/2024Azerbaijan attempts to distort Energy Charter goals in lawsuit against ArmeniaAzerbaijan is attempting to distort the content and goals of the Energy Charter Treaty by trying to link it to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Office of the Representative of Armenia on...
13:52 20/11/2024Arpine Sargsyan appointed Armenian interior ministerArmenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan on Wednesday signed a decree to appoint Arpine Sargsyan as Armenia’s new interior minister.
12:15 20/11/2024Amnesty International urges Georgia to respect right to peaceful assemblyReacting to the news that police in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, have violently dismantled a protesters’ tent camp, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and...
12:05 20/11/2024'Dictators release political prisoners only when they face consequences,' lawyer saysAzerbaijan, a country often criticized for its authoritarian governance and human rights abuses, is hosting the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) this year in its capital, Baku.
11:15 20/11/2024Arpine Sargsyan named Armenia's new interior ministerArpine Sargsyan will be appointed Armenia's new interior minister, replacing Vahe Ghazaryan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a social media post on Wednesday.
13:07 19/11/2024Seven artworks worth $500,000 missing from Yervand Kochar MuseumSeven valuable paintings have vanished from Yervand Kochar Museum in Yerevan, the Kochar Cultural Foundation reports.
12:30 19/11/2024Armenia's justice minister makes new appointmentsArmenia’s new Justice Minister Srbuhi Galyan has appointed Tsovinar Khachatryan as her new spokesperson.
11:35 19/11/2024Azerbaijan destroyed most of 19th-century church in ArtsakhAzerbaijan has destroyed most of the 19th-century church of Tandzatap in the Kovsakan district of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).
16:36 18/11/2024Yerevan court extends house arrest for Armen AshotyanThe Anti-Corruption Court in Yerevan on Monday extended the house arrest for opposition politician Armen Ashotyan by three more months.
15:04 18/11/2024Armenia's interior minister also resignsArmenia’s Interior Minister Vahe Ghazaryan has stepped down following the resignations submitted by several other senior officials.
12:30 18/11/2024Armenia's top investigator announces resignationArmenia’s Investigation Committee Chairman Argishti Kyaramyan has stepped down. “The time has come for me to announce my decision to resign as chairman of the Investigative Committee. It is...
11:33 16/11/2024Former Gyumri mayor's son detainedKhachatur Balasanyan, the youngest son of former Gyumri Mayor Samvel Balasanyan, has been detained as part of a criminal case into illegal privatization of municipal land involving his father.
16:35 15/11/2024Stop Greenwashing Genocide!: Protest held outside UN office in YerevanA COP29 protest “Stop Greenwashing Genocide!” has started outside the UN office in Yerevan. Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg, who arrived in Armenia after boycotting the UN climate summit in Baku...
15:59 15/11/2024Yerevan court orders compulsory attendance of Kocharyan, two others at next hearingFormer Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, opposition leader Seyran Ohanyan, a former defense minister, and former CSTO Secretary-General Yuri Khachaturov skipped an Anti-Corruption Court hearing on...
13:57 15/11/2024No one charged over misappropriation at ANIFNo one has yet been charged as part of a criminal probe into abuse of office and large-scale misappropriation at the Armenian National Interests Fund (ANIF).
16:16 14/11/2024Lawyer: Not a single anti-torture group has been allowed to visit Armenian prisoners23 Armenians are officially confirmed by Azerbaijan to be in its custody, says human rights lawyer Siranush Sahakyan, who represents Armenian prisoners of war and their families at the ECHR.
14:27 14/11/2024Lawyer: At least seven Armenian women tortured to death by Azeri soldiers in 2020Azerbaijan is using the COP29 UN climate summit both to “greenwash” and “peacewash” its global image, says Anna Melikyan, a legal expert at the Protection of Rights Without Borders NGO.
12:36 14/11/2024Extreme hypocrisy: Greta Thunberg slams COP29 in AzerbaijanSwedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday attended a conference titled “The Impact of Azerbaijan’s Aggression on Human Rights and Environmental Protection,” a side event of COP29...
11:55 14/11/2024Impact of Azeri aggression on environmental protection: COP29 side event kicks off in YerevanYerevan is hosting a conference titled “The Impact of Azerbaijan’s Aggression on Human Rights and Environmental Protection,” a side event of COP29 organized independently in Armenia.
16:34 13/11/2024Yerevan theater staff protests outside HRD officeEmployees of Yerevan’s Goy Theater on Wednesday held a protest outside the office of Armenia’s human rights defender (HRD), demanding response to the violation of their rights.