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22/06/2019 10:52Armenian citizen arrested in Georgia for not implementing legal demand of policeman“I have contacted with my Georgia’s counterpart, Public Defender Nino Lomjaria after the developments in Georgia. My counterpart told me that among the arrested are citizen of Armenia. He will be in custody for 13 days for not implementing the illegal demand of the policeman,” Tatoyan said.
22/06/2019 09:57Armenia’s citizen arrested after clashes in TbilisiMinas Minasyan, from Armenia’s Armavir town, studies in Tbilisi.
21/06/2019 21:27Constitutional Court to examine Robert Kocharyan’s application, sets August 29 as day of trialConstitutional Court held today a procedural session during which it considered cases and adopted the following procedural decisions:
21/06/2019 21:02Vigen Kocharyan elected member of Supreme Judicial CouncilAccording to Calculating Committee 114 lawmakers voted for him and four against.
20/06/2019 18:56Decision on ex-president Kocharyan’s preventive measure to be published on June 25He denied the petition of the defense party. The judge said the actions of the defense side are aimed at making the court hearing fail.
20/06/2019 15:42Newly elected CC judge, gives oath, hopes to bring into life his vision of CC“I will consider myself dismissed from all the previous interests. In this position I will pursue just one goal fixed in my oath speech. I hope to bring into life my vision of the Constitutional Court,” he said, hoping to have consent of CC members.
20/06/2019 14:06Flow of information harming Armenia’s security excluded: Vanetsyan on CSTO agreement“There are special state structures which will decide whether it is purposeful to transfer the information to a second or third country or not. The same logic will work between the CSTO member states,” Vanetsyan said, adding that the agreement has conditions, criteria which the state will take into consideration.
20/06/2019 12:59Salaries of judges to be raised in Armenia: Armenia’s PMThe head of the government pointed to the judicial-legal reforms saying that Armenia cannot have really independent judicial system without raising judge’s salaries 5-6 times.
20/06/2019 10:44Newly important justice minister to head reforms in resolute phase in Armenia’s judicial system: Armenia’s PMBefore the appointment Rustam Badasyan was deputy head of State Revenue Committee. Armenia’s PM stated that in the previous post Badasyan displayed himself at his best with high organizational skills.
20/06/2019 10:29Newly elected Constitutional Court judge to give oath todayGrigoryan has been elected on June 18 backed by 99 lawmakers. Another 22 voted against his candidacy.
19/06/2019 14:37Rustam Badasyan Armenia’s new justice ministerBefore this appointment Badasyan was deputy chairman of State Revenue Committee.
19/06/2019 14:25Ex-FM Vartan Oskanian served as mediator between Silva Hambardzumyan and Robert Kocharyan for acquisition of mines and transfer of 3 million USD bribe: prosecutor“The court had enough facts, proofs in this regard based on the testimonies of interrogated citizens Silva Hambardzumyan, Levon Altunyan and Anahit Israelyan,” he said, numerating other collected evidences as well.
19/06/2019 12:34Judge Armen Danileyan rejects another petition on recusalHe said the petition is based on judge’s behavior at June 18 session.
19/06/2019 11:12Prosecutor General describes claims about Czech justice minister’s decision not to extradite Narek Sargsyan as gossips“I assess these claims as gossips as we have not yet officially received decision on either rejecting or upholding our request,” Davtyan said.
19/06/2019 11:00Robert Kocharyan’s lawyer submits another petition for judge’s recusal“Some actions of the judge at yesterday’s session give basis for declaring recusal,” the lawyer said, submitting the petition.