The European Union (EU) announced it has added the names of 21 Belarusian officials to its blacklists, citing a recent surge in repression in the former Soviet country.
In the slander trial filed by Ara Gabuzyan, Head of Chair of Criminal Law of YSU Faculty of Law Ara Gabuzyan, against Banadzev Ltd. and Sirak Yeghiazaryan, the plaintiff modified his demands.
According to the bill, those found in violation of the use of public spaces – streets, sidewalks, bus stops, playgrounds, airports, etc – will be subject to fines ranging from 20,000 to 60,000 AMD.
Even though the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) is a junior member of the ruling coalition, several of the party’s MP’s voted in favour of a bill that would change the country’s electoral system to a fully proportional one.
Activists opposing construction in Yerevan’s Mashtots Park are urging all concerned to participate in a demonstration that will take place on Saturday, March 3 at 3pm.
School Principal Avetik Avetisyan told Hetq that village parents had sent a letter to RA President Sargsyan, informing him that work on the new building had been suddenly stopped.
The federal Court of Appeals issued a shocking decision last week. In a unanimous ruling, it struck down a California law that had allowed heirs of Armenian Genocide victims to sue life insurance companies for unpaid claims.
The French Constitutional Council yesterday quashed a draft law criminalizing the denial of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, arguing that “the legislation did unconstitutional harm to the exercise of freedom of expression and communication”.
Russia’s best known investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, an OCCRP partner, says its primary owner has been under increased pressure as the March presidential election nears. Novaya Gazeta’s vocal criticism of the Kremlin makes it no stranger to pressure.
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Human Rights Rapporteur Coskun Coruz called for the prosecution of Russian officials involved in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, the termination of the posthumous trial against him, and an end to the intimidation of his family.
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