Law enforcement continues to insist, under purely political persecution, that a single sentence spoken by Samvel Karapetyan on June 17, 2025, in defense of the Mother See constitutes a “call to seize ...
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NTV has reported on the events in Gyumri. It noted that additional law enforcement officers have been deployed at the Anti-Corruption Court building, with several dozen police stationed at the entranc...
Vardan Ghukasyan has been placed in custody for a period of two months, according to a ruling of the Anti-Corruption Court. Yesterday security forces stormed the Gyumri City Hall to detain Mayor Varda...
A total of 33 people have been arrested as part of the criminal proceedings launched on charges of participating in mass unrest and obstructing the administration of justice, the Investigative Committ...
Court hearings on the arrest of Vardan Ghukasyan concluded almost at dawn, and the decision will be announced today at 9:45 a.m., attorney Zaruhi Postanjyan said. According to her, during the session,...
After several hours of investigative actions, special forces from the National Security Service arrested Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan inside the city hall building. Oct. 20 did not dawn bright in Gyu...
The arrest of the elected head of Armenia’s second-largest city, Gyumri, represents nothing less than another institutionalization of political repression in the country — the first “conquest” of the ...
Lawyer Alexander Kochubayev has been remanded in custody for two months over a Facebook post. Following his arrest—during which he was reportedly forced to the ground—Kochubayev was charged under Arti...
Recordings of phone conversations purportedly belonging to Archbishop Nathan Hovhannisyan have been circulated by media outlets aligned with the government. Amid the authorities’ actions against the A...
The rector and vice-rector of Armenian State Pedagogical University have been arrested as part of a criminal case led by the Anti-Corruption Committee, the committee told ABC Media. They are accused o...
Certain actions are taking place at Armenian State Pedagogical University as part of an ongoing investigation. The university’s rector currently holds the status of a witness, Diana Markosyan, the uni...
The head of the Azerbaijani community in Russia’s Smolensk region, businessman Faik Aliyev, has been sentenced to four years in prison and fined 8.4 million rubles on bribery charges, the regional pro...