The lawyer of Mardiros Hakobyan, a member of the armed Sasna Dzrer group that seized a Yerevan police station last July and now being held in pre-trial detention at the Armavir Penitentiary, has been on hunger strike since March 12, despite claims to the contrary by the Department of Corrections and the Human Rights Office.
Armenia’s Investigative Journalists NGO is organizing two two-day training courses for local reporters entitled “Skills for Election Coverage” on the eve of the April 2 parliamentary election in Armenia.
The Artsakh Ministry of Defense reports that Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire 55 times yesterday and last night, firing more than 1,890 rounds of small arms.
In his financial disclosure for February 1, 2016 to January 31, 2017, Hakobyan declared 36 million AMD (US$74,098), $191,000, and 115,000 Euros in cash holdings.