After spending two years in jail, Armenian National Congress (HAK) activist Tigran Arakelyan was released by Armenia’s Court of Appeals under provisions of a general amnesty recently passed into law.
Hetq Chief Editor Edik Baghdasaryan and a select group of the news site’s reporters are in Rio de Janeiro to take part in the eighth Global Investigative Journalism Conference. The team has filed the following report:
The Ministry of Justice has announced that 505 convicts have so far been released from Armenia's jails under provisions of the October 3 general amnesty passed by the National Assembly on October 3.
The U.S. Department of Commerce is organizing a three day seminar in Yerevan tasked with raising the level of professionalism within Armenia’s State Revenue Committee, specifically targeting customs appraisal and classification.
In 43 of the cases, the ECHR has found violations in the manner the cases were handled in the Armenian court system. (Cases can only reach the ECHR after all legal avenues are exhausted in the country of origin)
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