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...
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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...
Spanish police are investigating the sudden death of the Mango clothing empire’s founder Isak Andic as a possible homicide, with his son as the key suspect, Agence France-Presse writes. Andic, 71, who...
The phones of 14 clergy members and 4 staffers who were taken in for questioning have been seized and not returned, Father Yesayi Artenyan told ABC Media. “We are unable to get in touch with them,” Fa...
During an interactive dialogue with the Chair of the UN Committee Against Torture, the Chair of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inh...
In recent days, Kotayk Province has resembled the scene of a criminal drama, with five murders occurring over just four days. Alarmingly, all suspects in these bloody incidents are reported to have me...
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is set to serve a five-year prison sentence at La Santé prison in Paris. He will be transferred there on Oct. 21, with the court issuing the ruling without wait...