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15/04/2021 13:30Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office confirms criminal case filed against SJC president, refuses to unveil details“If the criminal case, the filed criminal persecution does not relate to the implementation of the authorities of the judge, there is no issue of getting such consent. In this case we are dealing with the case I have mentioned,” the adviser said.
15/04/2021 11:08Criminal case filed against president of Armenia’s Supreme Judicial Council“As far as I understood from the writ sent to us, it is not filed for functional matter, which means that in this case the consent of the prosecutor’s office is not necessary,” Bekmezyan said.
13/04/2021 13:52Armenia’s second president waits for Covid-19 test result, court hearing delayed till MayAlumyan also said the result of the test will be known today.
12/04/2021 12:36Armenia’s CC to examine president’s application in 30-day periodIt has been reported earlier that President Armen Sarkissian applied to CC to determine the constitutionality of the amendments to the Judicial Code. According to the president, “the law contradicts the Constitution.”
12/04/2021 11:52Judicial Code contradicts the Constitution, Armenia’s President Armen Sarkissian applies to CCThe offered regulations are situational and problematic from the viewpoint of legal certainty, proportionality, division of power branches as well as correspondence to constitutional principles and demands of independence of judicial power.
08/04/2021 20:36Russia's Prosecutor General assures Armenia's PM that will continue his efforts for exchange of captivesThe Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation stressed the need to comply with Clause 8 of the trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, which states that hostages, prisoners of war and other detainees should be exchanged without preconditions. Igor Krasnov assured that he will continue his efforts in this direction and will do everything possible to tackle the matter.
08/04/2021 14:35Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan files defamation lawsuit against PM PashinyanSpokesperson of Kocharyan’s defense group Elina Sahakova told Aysor.am that the lawsuit relates to the expressions allowed by the PM during March 1, 2021 rally.
08/04/2021 14:24March 1 case was state ideology of Pashinyan's power with which he was deceiving people - Armenian second president's office head“The public was poisoned with it for 13 years, it was done targeted, big means were invested in it, not only local but noticeable foreign resources were applied,” he said.
08/04/2021 13:35People aged 27 and having evaded military service by Karabakh war to be pardoned in Armenia“The bill spreads on persons reached age 27 for rank-and-file and age 35 for officer staff till 2020 September 26, suspects, defendants and convicts only under Article 327 of Armenia’s Criminal Code,” Badasyan said at the cabinet sitting today.
07/04/2021 15:25Apprehended citizens released from Armenia’s Central Police DepartmentMelikyan said he does not have information about the apprehended in other departments.
07/04/2021 15:14Woman claims police officers used violence against her at police department – VETO initiative leader“The same police officers will go today in the evening to congratulate their mothers and women on April 7 but few hours before they were using violence against women,” Malyan said.
07/04/2021 15:06Media watchdog says police officer hits reporter near Armenia’s Government buildingThe initiative says that recently it has many times fixed the cases of intolerant attitude of representatives of power structures while contacting with reporters.
07/04/2021 14:1515 protesters apprehended near government building in ArmeniaThe participants of the action headed to Central Police department.
07/04/2021 12:25Justice minister says ready for political responsibility for failure of vettingTo the remark that the revelation of March 1 case was declared as priority by the ruling political team, Badasyan said there are concrete responsible for each process and one should not expect answers to all the questions from political authorities.
06/04/2021 18:09Criminal persecution against Armenia’s second president and other ex-top officials terminatedYerevan court of general jurisdiction chaired by judge Anna Danibekyan ruled to terminate the criminal persecution against Armenia’s second president Robert Kocharyan and other ex-top officials under Article 300.1 of Armenia’s Criminal Code recognized ubnconstitutional and invalid by the Constitutional Court.