The total number of inmates, including pre-trial detainees, in Armenia on January 31, 2021 numbered 1,967 according to the Council of Europe’s SPACE/2021 report that looks at penal institutions and prison populations in CoE member states.
Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan and European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar met today in Yerevan discussed the process to normalize relations between Armenia and Azerbaija
Opposition Hayastan faction MP Gegham Nazaryan also talked to the young hunger strikers, telling Hetq that he advised them to call off the strike.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, during a speech in the National Assembly on April 13, said that the “the international community is again telling us to lower our benchmark on the status of Nagorno Karabakh a little.”
The Armenia Ministry of Environment, on April 6, gave the green light to a My Forest NGO project to reforest an area, just south of the town of Stepanavan, in the country’s northern Lori Province.