According to reports that "Hetq" has obtained from the police public affairs division nothing more than an argument broke out last evening between the son of Kanaker-Zeytun district leader Arayik Kotantchyan and members of the Prosperous Armenian Party ...
According to reports that “Hetq” has obtained from the police public affairs division nothing more than an argument broke out last evening between the son of Kanaker-Zeytun district leader Arayik Kotantchyan and members of the Prosperous Armenian Party (PAP). This contradicts earlier press reports that a crowd of Republican Party members, led by Kotantchyan’s son, had attacked the PAP campaign headquarters in the district.
Photo-journalist Gagik Shamshyan has given testimony in the assault case of Argishti Kiviryan, who was savagely beaten on the morning of April 30. Mr. Shamshyan testified to officials of the National Security Service (NSS). Pictures taken by the photo-hournalist, ...
“Our investigation showed no such casings. If any one picked them up and is holding them they should hand them over,” said police criminal investigations chief Hovhannes Tamamyan, a few days after the assault.
Yesterday Mr. Hovhannesyan had testified that he had no connection with the events in question and that he was home on March 1, 2008. He had offered testimony of an accusatory nature against Hakob Hakobyan and Armen Farmanyan, one of the victims of March 1st.
At today's trial of the Hakob Hakobyan criminal case, 27 year-old Hamlet Hovhannesyan submitted a written motion to the court that the evidence he gave yesterday be considered invalid. He requested that the evidence he gave during the preliminary investiagation ...
Has the time come for reporters to carry guns?
Helsinki Committee President Ishkhanyan stated, “I don’t wish to say that what happened to Argishti Kiviryan was unprecedented because such acts have already taken place this year. After each such incident I make it a point to visit the injured party but this assault stands out in its savagery.”
At a press conference held earlier today, Avetik Ishkhanyan, President of the Helsinki Rights Committee in Armenia, stated that the April 30 attack on journalist and attorney Argishti Kiviryan was a case of "attempted murder". Also at the press conference ...
When asked by the judge why a criminal case hadn’t been brought, if this was the case, attorney Arsenyan answered that the preliminary investigative body concluded that the actions of the bailiffs were within the law.
The trial of "Chorrord Ishkhanutyun" reporter Gohar Veziryan reumed today at the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court, Judge Gagik Poghosyan presiding. Ms. Veziryan is charged with acts of "improper behavior" towards the court during the August 6, 2008 trial ...
The plaintiff demanded compensation in the sum of 16,120,000 drams. The suit notes that, “The slandering of Levon Kocharyan directly defames the honor, integrity and good name of the second president of the Republic of Armenia not only in Armenia but in world public opinion.” Furthermore, in the view of the plaintiff, this has also damaged the credibility of Armenia and the good name of the Armenian people.
On April 9, 2009, Sarkis Hatspanian was sentenced to 3.5 years imprisonment after being found guilty of “false denunciation” by the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court, Judge Gagik Avetisyan presiding. The political opposition, especially the HAK (Armenian ...
On April 9, 2009, Sarkis Hatspanian was sentenced to 3.5 years imprisonment after being found guilty of “false denunciation” by the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court, Judge Gagik Avetisyan presiding. The political opposition, especially the HAK (Armenian National Congress) considers Hatspanian, to be a political prisoner.
Madame Anoush was assisted in her nefarious business by her sisters Sofya Martirosyan and Sonya Gabrielyan, as well as by Mariam Martikyan.
Reporter Gohar Veziryan is being charged with that very crime, “behavior disrespectful to the court”. At the core of the indictment is the testimony of witnesses Shahen Ohanyan, Artur Pilosyan, Rafael Stepanyan and Murad Grigoryan. On the day of the incident, while removing Gohar from the court for “disrespectful behavior”, they escorted to the use of physical force. Even though the court physician registered the traces, he didn’t...
Today, at the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court, Judge Gagik Poghosyan presiding, the case of "Chorrord Ishkhanutyun" reporter Gohar Veziryan was being heard. The testimony of four witnesses, all officers of the court, was heard. - Doesn't the interrogation ...
Today, reporter Gagik Shamshyan was found guilty by the Kentron and Nork-Marash Court of First Instance for verbally assaulting and ignoring the directives of Judge Gagik Avetisyan on August 5, 2008, during the court case of Smbat Ayvazyan. Mr. Shamshyan, ...
Today, reporter Gagik Shamshyan was found guilty by the Kentron and Nork-Marash Court of First Instance for verbally assaulting and ignoring the directives of Judge Gagik Avetisyan on August 5, 2008, during the court case of Smbat Ayvazyan.
The slander suit brought by the Ijevan Municipality against the “Investigative Journalists” NGO continued today in the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court, Judge Ruben Apenyan presiding.
The slander suit brought by the Ijevan Municipality against the "Investigative Journalists" NGO continued today in the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court, Judge Ruben Apenyan presiding.
Davit Jalalyan, a reporter for “A1+” news, provided an explanation at the Kentron police station that the police didn’t beat him on the evening of April 8 at Northern Avenue but that he simply stumbled backwards and fell on his back and thus suffered his injuries. This is what the press service of the RoA Police communicated to “Hetq”.
The trial of Gagik Shamshyan, a photo-journalist for the “Aravot” and “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” newspapers, continued today at the Kentron and Nork-Marash district court. During the trial, lawyer for the prosecution Levon Dzarkhifalakyan motioned the court to fine Mr. Shamshyan in the amount of five hundred times his salary for showing disrespect to the court.
Arman Iskandaryan and Haroutyun Khachatryan, life-term prisoners of Nubarashen Correctional Institution, go on a hunger strike for already five days. Moreover, the latter had even sewed up his lips to show that he is deprived of any right to speak out.
Arman Iskandaryan and Haroutyun Khachatryan, life-term prisoners of Nubarashen Correctional Institution, go on a hunger strike for already five days. Moreover, the latter had even sewed up his lips to show that he is deprived of any right to speak out. “We ...
During the March 9th trial session the court heard from Sonya Gabrielyan and Mariam Martikyan. The latter reneged on her previous testimony in which it was noted that despite being aware that Nora and Milena (whose name has been changed and has been recognized by the court as an aggrieved party) were to be exploited in the Emirates, however Gayaneh Ghaltakhchyan intervened, sending them an invitation and paying for their travel expenses to...
While returning home from work on November 17, 2008, “Hetq” Editor-in-Chief Edik Baghdasaryan was attacked by three individuals as he approached his car. From the start, certain news outlets pointed the finger at Vardan Ayvazyan, the former Minster of Nature Protection who was in Moscow at the time of the incident, as the one who put out a “contract” on Baghdasaryan. Today, Mr. Ayvazyan is President of the National Assembly’s Standing...
“Hetq’s” on the scene correspondent reports that the rally at the Matenadaran has ended and that the throngs of people are winding their way down Mashtots Avenue towards Myasnikian Statute, the site of last year’s tragic events, that resulted in the deaths of ten Armenians. The crowds will gather there to lay wreaths of flowers in silent commemoration.
“Hetq’s” reporter on the scene says that the March 1st rally called by the Armenian National Congress (HAK) has gotten underway at the Matenadaran in downtown Yerevan. The rally began by calling out the names of those who died one year ago, followed by a minute of reverential silence. Levon Zurabyan, a top HAK leader then took the microphone.
On February 25, 2009, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, of the United States Department of State issued its 2008 Human Rights Reports. The report focusing on the state of human rights in Armenia during 2008 was quite critical of the Armenian government’s human rights record for the year and mentioned the events surrounding the March 2008 presidential elections and the events that followed as examples of serious violations....
In addition to Mariam Martirosyan, also charged in the case is the other sister of Anoush, Sonya Gabrielyan. At various times they assisted Anoush in transporting women of different ages to the United Arab Emirates under false pretenses where they wound up being forced to work as prostitutes.
At a press conference held today, Ruben Hayrapetyan, a National Assembly Deputy and President of the Armenian Football Federation, who recently purchased the “Bjni” water bottling plant, responded to reports appearing in the press regarding the auction sale carried out by the government.
K.G testified that at the house of Mariam Martikyan the following exchange took place between Mariam and Milena, an injured party in the case whose named had been changed. “At first Milena refused to go to Dubai arguing that she was scared. But Martikyan told her not to worry about a thing because she would be there to support her and that she would send to see a man who’d take care of all her problems.”
Labelling the recent sale of the Hovhannes Tumanyan residence in Tbilisi to a Georgian businessman for $25,000 a “shame”, Tigran Karapetyan, President of the People’s Party of Armenia, declared that he’d be willing to buy back the building if it was a question of money. The politician criticized those who remained indifferent to such a development and who didn’t act to purchase the Tumanyan house when it first went on the market...
40 year-old Anoush, a high school graduate, has been in custody since October 1, 2008. For years on end Anoush has overseen the transfer, through fraud and deceit, of women of various ages from Armenia to the United Arab Emirates where they have been subject to sexual exploitation.
Last December 22, on the day of the rebirth of the Mihr, the Armenian pagan god of justice, and the winter solstice, the “Union of Armenian Nationalists” (HAH) was founded on the site of the Erebuni fortress. Today, at its first press conference, HAH council member Armen Avetisyan, who is also the leader of the “Armenian Aryan Brotherhood” stated, “We are coming forward not only to modify the public and political sectors as we see...
Last December 22, on the day of the rebirth of the Mihr, the Armenian pagan god of justice, and the winter solstice, the "Union of Armenian Nationalists" (HAH) was founded on the site of the Erebuni fortress. Today, at its first press conference, HAH council ...
On December 26, the Court of Appeals upheld the verdict handed down by the Kentron and Nork Marash Court which sentenced Grigor Igityan to 4.5 years imprisonment on the charge of defrauding American-Armenian benefactors George and Carolann Najarian out of substantial amounts of property.
The homeless propose that the President and Prime Minister spend just one night in their huts to experience the situation themselves.
The neighborhood is so lacking in hygienic-sanitary conditions that residents are in a constant battle with mice and other larger vermin. In their words, city officials graze their animals at the river banks and passersby throw their trash in the stream so ...
The neighborhood is so lacking in hygienic-sanitary conditions that residents are in a constant battle with mice and other larger vermin. In their words, city officials graze their animals at the river banks and passersby throw their trash in the stream so ...
A Hetq Interview with Lernik Hovhannisyan, Secretary of the ARF Artsakh Youth Union
A license to operate the Meghri Lichkvaz and Terterasar gold mines was granted to the Armenian company “Sipan-1” back in 1999. The company built a gold extraction plant and operated the mines for a period of four years. In 2005 “Sipan-1” was purchased by the Australian firm “Iberian Resources”. Later on, 86% of Iberia’s outstanding shares were purchased by yet another Australian firm, “Tamaya Resources”.
On April 21, 2005 the government decided to expropriate the land, some 9,400 square meters, via public domain laws. The area was slated to be developed and the Yerevan Municipality was assigned to complete the work during 2005 to 2009.
Last year on August 30th, Tigran Ohandjanyan, an enlisted military serviceman, died under suspicious circumstances at the “N” army post. His body was covered with numerous traces of physical violence, something tat was verified by photos taken of Tigran’s ...
The specialist registered this but didn’t notice that the fingers were bluish. In his words, this was a shadow. For Adamyan our photos don’t serve as a basis. He says we also photographed the corpse and that our camera costs $1,800 and that it is correct. But they photographed the body after it had been cosmetically touched-up.”
“I have facts at my disposal that certain Police employees who are under the thumb of ‘Flour-Mill Lyovik’s’ gangsters have started to open a case against me. My biggest sin is that I rubbed shoulders with that gang’s whores that day.”
“You wouldn’t believe it but if we eat meat once a month in the village, that’s good. I can just about buy enough sugar for the kids with the pension the government gives me. So how can I raise livestock or sow wheat? I’m forced to work as a hired hand. I clean out other people’s cow sheds, cut their firewood and till their fields. I get paid what they give me. There is no work here.” Karen says.
"We really went through hard times. The planes would constantly bomb us. We fled to Stepanakert. We lived in the schoolhouse along with two young kids. Later on, when Mandel’s detachment chased the Turks out we returned. Everything was in ruins however. There wasn’t a chair to sit on or a mattress to sleep on. We gathered items from here and there.” explains Seta Bayunts.