An internal investigation in a central Armenian town over a death in police custody has led to the dismissal of the town’s police chief and three officers.
Armenia’s governing party sees no prerequisites for early elections and will seek to win a majority in parliament in the next general elections, its senior member said at a press conference on Thursday.
The government hopes its plan to raise pensions in Armenia by more than 10 percent in fall will help mitigate the effects of the price hike affecting the most vulnerable groups of the country’s population, the head of the State Social Security Service said on Wednesday.
A prominent human rights campaigner looking into the recent suspicious death of a young man in police custody has accused investigators of attempting a cover-up by supporting the suicide theory advanced by the police.
Armenia criticized the European Parliament on Friday for demanding the “withdrawal of Armenian forces from all occupied territories of Azerbaijan” in its latest resolution on the South Caucasus.
Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian has told visiting officials from a key Council of Europe watchdog that Armenian law-enforcement authorities are doing more to tackle the widespread ill-treatment of criminal suspects in custody.
Relatives of a man who died in Armenian police custody last month condemned on Tuesday state forensic experts for giving more weight to police claims that he committed suicide and was not tortured to death.
One of the seven men convicted in a 1999 deadly attack on Armenia’s parliament was found dead in his prison cell at the weekend. Armenian prison authorities said they have launched an investigation to ascertain the cause of Hamlet Stepanian’s sudden death.
A law-enforcement body investigating the latest suspicious death of a criminal suspect in Armenian police custody said on Thursday that it is trying to contact and question two key witnesses who left Armenia just days after the incident.
The Armenian police faced on Monday more torture allegations stemming from a criminal investigation that led to the suspicious death in police custody of a resident of Charentsavan, a small town about 40 kilometers north of Yerevan.
In an unprecedented public apology, the chief of Armenia’s police service admitted on Friday misleading the nation about the recent scandalous death of a young man in police custody.
An Armenian police officer was charged on Thursday with torturing a young man who died at the police station of the central town of Charentsavan earlier this month.
President Serzh Sarkisian held out hope for Armenian electricity exports to Turkey on Tuesday just as one of his top diplomats warned that Yerevan may still formally rescind the Turkish-Armenian normalization agreements.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian slammed on Monday the official freezing of Armenian parliamentary ratification of the fence-mending agreements with Turkey, saying that President Serzh Sarkisian has opted for the worst possible response to the Turkish delay tactic.
The chief of Armenia’s police service, General Alik Sargsian, insisted on Tuesday that a young man who died in police custody last week was not ill-treated by his interrogators.
Grief-stricken relatives of a young man who died in detention last week accused the Armenian police on Monday of brutally murdering him, angrily dismissing police claims that he committed a suicide.
The chief of the Armenian police, Alik Sargsian, warned on Wednesday opponents of Armenia’s leadership against staging the kind of a revolt that brought down the government in Kyrgyzstan.
Armenia would ratify its normalization agreements with Turkey only after their validation by the Turkish parliament, President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) insisted on Monday.
Turkish and Armenian human rights organizations called on Friday for a speedy implementation of the agreements to normalize relations between their countries welcomed around the world.
President Serzh Sarkisian has agreed to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip in Washington next week, his office said on Thursday.
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