Raffi K. Hovannisian kicked off his campaign tour of the provinces today with a visit to the town of Metsamor, where the scheduled town hall meeting had to be moved outdoors to accommodate the hundreds of supporters who had turned out to listen to the presidential candidate.
The release of political prisoners and other amnestied persons, including Vahagn Chakhalyan caused furious reactions from the opposition party, United National Movement. During the last weeks, and especially yesterday their representatives have been making incorrect statements, trying thus to disseminate anti-Armenian sentiments in the multinational Georgian society.
OCCRP investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova was detained today while protesting in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku. Among hundreds of protesters, Ismayilova was one of some 40 arrested, who also included bloggers Emin Milli and Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, as well as human rights defender Malahat Nasibova.
As we all know, road construction in Armenia is carried out through kickbacks and by pocketing state funds. Many people supposed that it wasn’t possible to control since it required an in- depthinvestigation.
The Turkish press reports that local police have released a sketch of the suspected assailant of 80 year-old Sultan Aykar, the latest Armenian woman to be attacked in Istanbul’s Samatya neighbourhood this past Tuesday.
The National Citizen's Initiative (NCI) representatives Hovsep Khurshudyan and Hrayr Manukyan yestertoday presented NCI report, entitled "The Results of Armenia's Integration with the EU in the Framework of the Eastern Partnership: 2010-2012."
In his first official statement after being released from Georgian prison, Javakhk activist Vahagn Chakhalyan said that the only reason he wound up in jail in the first place was that he demanded that Georgian authorities respect the rights of Javakhk residents and that he criticized the persecution of Javakhk Armenians by the Saakashvili regime.
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