Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, responded to the OSCE’s report on the detention and criminal prosecution of lawyer and human rights defender Alexander Ko...
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Upon disembarking from the plane, security forces arrested Masis Mayor and opposition candidate for prime minister, Davit Hambardzumyan, at Zvartnots Airport. He was sentenced to more than 6 years in ...
The plenary session of Russia’s Supreme Court has approved a decision to submit to the State Duma a bill proposing the creation of a Putin District Court in Grozny, Meduza.io reports. According to the...
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia has filed charges against former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili for money laundering, Georgia’s Prosecutor General Giorgi Gvaramadze, announced during a ...
Lawyer Ruben Mkhitaryan, who was detained while carrying out his professional duties, has been placed under two months’ pre-trial detention. He is accused of participating in mass disorders and interf...
The question of church ownership as a building has once again become a topic of discussion after Nikol Pashinyan declared from the Parliament that Hovhannavank is accounted for on the government’s bal...
During the public protests in Gyumri, dozens of residents were detained, including Ruben, who is a lawyer by profession and considered it his duty to stand by his fellow citizens as a human rights def...
Ruben Mkhitaryan, a member of In Our Way popular movement and the son of the legendary weightlifting coach Ashot Mkhitaryan, has been remanded in custody for two months by a decision of the Shirak Reg...
During the preliminary investigation of a criminal case launched in connection with an audio recording circulated online, an individual has been questioned, the Investigative Committee told ABC Media....
Wiretapping is a criminal offense. The law allows recordings only by court order as part of a secret investigative procedure. However, in Armenia, most of the recent political arrests have been carrie...
A discussion has taken place at the Chamber of Advocates concerning the ongoing criminal proceedings against lawyer Aleksandr Kochubayev, the Chamber reports. “On Oct. 20, 2025, a discussion was held ...
During the pre-trial investigation into the murder that took place in Merdzavan, a DNA expert report has been received. According to the findings, DNA samples taken from items discovered during the se...