Today, on May 18, the first court hearing on the case of defamation of Judge Davit Grigoryan against member of theSupreme Judicial Council (“SJC”) Liparit Melikjanyan was held in the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan. The interests of the...
Read MoreRuben Melikyan raises several concerns on the government-authored draft law, authorizing general surveillance over the location, the content of calls and messages. 1) We are required by law to download a certain application on our mobile phones, the...
Read MoreOn 10 March, 2020, the Administrative Court of the Republic of Armenia decided to grant the claim of “Path of Law” NGO against the Office of the Prime Minister, obliging the Staff of the Prime Minister’s to provide the decision on bonuses awarded...
Read MoreThe Prime Minister’s staff has unreasonably restricted the “Media Defender” initiative’s right to receive information. On September 24, 2019, the “Media Defender” initiative requested RA Prime Minister’s Staff’s SNPO of “Public Relations and Information Center” to provide information about SNPO’s...
Read MoreTo remind, on April 15, 2019, at around 6:30 am, a group of citizens staged a political protest by writing “Sut Nikol” on different parts of the streets of Yerevan. The aim of the political action was to inform the...
Read MoreOn 22 November 2019, a video demonstrating the use of torture by RA police officers, who were trying to extort testimony from an Armenian citizen, was leaked to the press. In the video, 3 police officers were slapping, cursing and throwing the citizen to the floor,...
Read MoreThis morning, one of the members of the ruling party of the National Assembly of RA publicly announced worrisome information that the judge hearing the case of high publicity is being “pressured”, while, in response to that, initiating a rally...
Read MoreRecently, the new RA authorities marked their one-year anniversary. During that time, the state politics in Armenia, in spite of the slogans of the ruling power, widely includes tools that openly infringe the law, generally not aimed at overcoming the...
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