Armenia’s Economic Activity Index (EAI) rose by 5.5% during the period of January-May 2016 when compared to the same period last year.
For the past year, investigations looking into Yerevan police maltreatment of reporters covering the dispersal of Electric Yerevan demonstrators on June 23, 2015, have languished with no resolution in sight.
An Armenian court has sentenced Rafal Zelbert, a Polish national arrested at Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport on November 15, 2015 for attempting to smuggle 13 kilograms of cocaine into the country, to fifteen years’ imprisonment.
Staffers from Armenia’s Human Right Defender’s (HRD) Office have visited Jirayr Sefilyan, the opposition activist arrested yesterday on charges of illegal arms possession and for planning to seize various government buildings in Yerevan by force.
Jirayr Sefilyan , the opposition activist arrested yesterday on charges of illegal arms possession, told members of the Social Monitoring Group (SMG) who had visited him in jail, that he was fine and that his arrest was merely the latest case of government persecution against him.
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