Several high-ranking Czech officials including the top aide to Prime Minister Petr Nečas were detained in the course of a massive sweep by the country’s organized crime police forces on Thursday, the BBC reported.
Former Armavia Airlines employees have been periodically showing up at offices of the now bankrupt national carrier of Armenia ever since management promised to pay their back wages starting this past Monday.
The workshop brought together some 30 lawyers and human rights defenders from various regions of Armenia; it is run by two experts from the UK-based non-governmental organization Interights and several local experts. Workshop participants will review the experience of the execution and implementation of the ECtHR judgments, legal matters related to reopening of cases, ECtHR case law on moral damage and the validity of submissions to the Committee...
Police have confirmed that the writer Vrezh Israelyan committed suicide today in Yerevan.
The fund says that those wishing to get on the list and to learn more on the project should either go directly to their office at 30 Hanrapetutyun Street (Yerevan) or call (+374 98) 90 33 88, (+374 93) 13 17 17.
In yet another case of an Armenian official overstepping his legal bounds and selling off land registered as a “historical-cultural monument”, Alaverdi Mayor Artavazd Varosyan has allowed for a 150 square meter parcel surrounding a monument built in 1970 dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Soviet Armenia to be sold to a developer for 165,000 AMD ($400) for the construction of a children’s cafe.
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