The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Azerbaijan to submit by November 4 fresh information about the detention and health conditions of 23 Armenian prisoners held by it, a Yerevan-based lawyer representing them said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian again made clear on Tuesday that his government will not press Azerbaijan to enable Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian population displaced by the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive to return to its homeland.
Ignoring Nikol Pashinian’s objections, Azerbaijan has continued to describe as “Zangezur corridor” a special transit route for Azerbaijan which the Armenian prime minister pledged to open during a recent summit in Washington.
The outgoing Iranian ambassador to Armenia on Friday signaled Tehran’s lingering concerns about the Armenian government’s decision to let the United States administer a transit corridor for Azerbaijan adjacent to Iran.
Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Tuesday declined to confirm or deny a report that its director, Andranik Simonian, discussed with Azerbaijani officials a possible prisoner swap during a weekend visit to Baku.
Relatives of Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan want to meet with the head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS), Andranik Simonian, following his weekend visit to Baku, one of them said on Monday.
Lawmakers allied to former President Serzh Sarkisian are making yet another attempt to put a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, despite skepticism voiced by a larger opposition group represented in the Armenian parliament.
In what opposition leaders see as yet another concession to Turkey, Armenia’s government has decided to remove an image of Mount Ararat from the entry and exit passport stamps issued by Armenian immigration officers.
Opposition lawmakers kept pressing the Armenian government on Friday to reveal practical modalities of a special transit corridor which it plans to open for Azerbaijan.
The agreements reached by Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington last month did not fully resolve the long-running conflict between the two South Caucasus states, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan acknowledged on Wednesday.
Some of the 23 Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan have tried to commit suicide recently, an Armenian lawyer campaigning for their release said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Monday criticized Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for describing as “Zangezur corridor” a special transit route for Azerbaijan which he pledged to open during a recent summit in Washington.
An appeals court has ruled that law-enforcement authorities searched billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s house in Yerevan during his arrest on June 18 in breach of Armenian law.
Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will no longer be able to visit Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan, according to their relatives in Armenia.
An Armenian honorary consul in Russia has reportedly been sacked after criticizing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s ongoing campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church and the resulting arrest of billionaire Samvel Karapetian.
An Armenian priest in Russia has refused to allow an Armenian pro-government lawmaker strongly supporting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose Catholicos Garegin II to be the godfather at the baptism of a child.
A top representative of Samvel Karapetian dismissed on Thursday government loyalists’ claims that Russia is behind a new Armenian opposition group which is being set up by the jailed Russian-Armenian billionaire.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities announced more criminal charges against jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian on Wednesday two days after he confirmed plans to set up a new opposition group that will challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Representatives of Armenia’s leading opposition forces on Monday welcomed jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s apparent plans to set up his own political group that will also challenge Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Law-enforcement authorities raided the Yerevan offices of jailed billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Tashir Group on Wednesday as the Armenian parliament approved a controversial government bill paving the way for the seizure of its biggest asset: the national electric utility.
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