Armenia – Human Rights

By RUPEN JANBAZIAN The Armenian Weekly YEREVAN—The National Assembly of Armenia today adopted legislation aimed at combating domestic violence by introducing criminal and administrative liability [more >>>]

By SISAK GABRIELIAN RFE/RL Prominent Soviet-era dissident Paruyr Hayrikian, who currently heads an Armenian political group, has gone on a hunger strike over what he [more >>>]

RFE/RL YEREVAN — The prosecutor in the trial of former separatist Nagorno-Karabakh military commander Samvel Babayan has urged an Armenian court to convict the retired [more >>>]

By JOSHUA KUCERA EurasiaNet Armenia’s ruling party has criticized a draft bill aimed at preventing domestic violence, and the government has said it will amend [more >>>]

By JOSHUA KUCERA EurasiaNet Armenia’s government has introduced long-awaited legislation to ban domestic violence, an issue that has become the key battleground in the proxy [more >>>]

RFE/RL Armenia The United States and the European Union expressed concern on Wednesday at the alleged vote buying and “systematic use” of government resources in [more >>>]

RFE/RL Armenian Service A parliamentary opposition party has decided not to field its candidates in upcoming local elections in Armenia because of the arrests and [more >>>]

By Naira Bulghadarian RFE/RL Armenian Service Armenia’s law-enforcement authorities have published the list of the types of stun grenades and other “special means” of crowd [more >>>]

RFE/RL Armenian Service Another Armenian police officer shot by opposition gunmen died on Saturday after succumbing to wounds sustained in last month’s armed attack on [more >>>]