On June 13, the international legal team for Ruben Vardanyan, a political prisoner detained in Azerbaijan, filed an urgent appeal with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, imploring her to condemn ...
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Responding to the reports of violent clashes between protesters and the police in Armenia’s capital Yerevan, Natalia Nozadze, Amnesty International’s South Caucasus researcher, said: “The level of vio...
The Hayakve civil initiative strongly condemns the disproportionate brute force used against unarmed protesters yesterday at the Baghramyan-Demirchyan intersection, including the use of special measur...
Օn June 12, the Human Rights Defender and the representatives of the Defender’s Office visited Police departments and medical institutions, met the participants of the protests and the Police officers...
Today’s incidents of violence and the use of special measures by the police against the participants of the assembly at the Baghramyan-Demirchyan intersection were a gross violation of the law. Former...
Abraham has been tortured. Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said this in Baghramyan Avenue, calling for the distribution of the photo showing the bloody face of Abraham Gasparyan, the director of Genesis ...
The police have detained Abraham Gasparyan, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said in Baghramyan Avenue. “You told me that if I didn’t have my vestments on, we would take me. Well, then imagine that I am n...
The minimum age for marriage has become 18 in Armenia, without any exceptions. The National Assembly adopted a draft legislation produced by MP Rustam Bakoyan at its second and final reading. Before t...
Judge of the Court of Appeal, Lusine Alaverdyan, recently upheld the defense appeal and placed Artur Sukoyan under house arrest, Sukoyan’s lawyer Erik Aleksanyan said. Artur Sukoyan is MP Levon Kochar...
Today, we went to the Investigative Committee together, first, to clearly make a demand, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said outside Saint Anna Church, Yerevan. According to him, they did not issue thei...
The 27 people detained during the protests outside the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been released. Sergey Harutyunyan, a member of the Five Human Rights Defenders initiative, said ...
We appeal to the Armenian government, as well as all other governments around the world, to exercise restraint and respect people’s fundamental human right to express their dissent. The Lemkin Institu...