Police Reform Council meets, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired a meeting of the Police Reform Council, which discussed the police reform strategy and the measures specified in the 2020-2022 Action Plan. Deputy Police Chief Ara Fidanyan reported that the reforms seek to form a police force meeting modern challenges …
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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan chaired an Anticorruption Policy Council meeting, which was held in the Office of Government. The meting discussed a number of agenda items. Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan reported back the results of the activities planned for 2019-2020 and carried out in 2020 as part of the Anticorruption Strategy, as well as …
Public Radio of Armenia. On the instructions of the Human Rights Defender, the Defender’s representatives, including the doctor, had private talks with the five prisoners released from Azerbaijani captivity. Their health condition was assessed. Necessary actions will be taken as a result of the visit. Five captives were repatriated to Armenia earlier this week with the …
The German Federal Government’s Special Representative for the Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, State Minister Michael Roth, the President of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, Rik Daems, and the Secretary General of the 47-nation Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, have today made the following statement concerning the sentencing of Aleksey Navalnyy: “We deeply regret the recent …
Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), PACE’s rapporteur on political prisoners in the Russian Federation, and Jacques Maire (France, ALDE), rapporteur on the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition politician and anti-corruption campaigner, have today reacted to his sentencing to two years and eight months in a prison colony. “I consider Mr Navalny to be a political …
On February 2, the RA NA independent deputies Taguhi Tovmasyan, Vardan Atabekyan, Anna Grigoryan, Sofia Hovsepyan, Gor Gevorgyan and Sergey Bagratyan met with the candidate for the Chairperson of the Court of Cassation Lilit Tadevosyan, candidates for judge Armen Mkrtchyan and Armen Haykyants. During the meeting a discussion was held on the judicial-legal reforms, problems …
Istanbul, February 1, 2021 – Turkish authorities should immediately drop all charges against the journalists and press freedom advocates currently facing a second trial on trumped-up terrorism charges, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On February 3, the Thirteenth Istanbul Court of Serious Crimes is scheduled to begin hearings in the retrial of Erol …
Yesterday, on 1 February 2021 the Government of the Republic of Armenia submitted an Inter-State Application against Azerbaijan with the European Court of Human Rights claiming Convention violations during and in the aftermath of the war waged by Azerbaijan. In particular, the Armenian Government claims that Azerbaijan has violated the right to life, prohibition of …
During the war, Azerbaijan committed numerous violations of international law and humanitarian norms
To the President of the European Council, Mr. Charles Michel To the President of the European Commission, Mrs. Ursula von der Leyen Armenian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum STATEMENT On the Situation in the South Caucasus Region Yerevan, January 30, 2021 The Armenian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership …
When in 1923, in order to artificially separate Armenia from Artsakh, “Red Kurdistan” was formed, the border disputes with Zangezur of the Armenian SSR intensified. One of the main concerns consistently raised by the people of Zangezur at the time was the issue of the rights of the villagers to the lands, along with the …
