One of the seven men convicted in a 1999 deadly attack on Armenia’s parliament was found dead in his prison cell at the weekend. Armenian prison authorities said they have launched an investigation to ascertain the cause of Hamlet Stepanian’s sudden death.
A law-enforcement body investigating the latest suspicious death of a criminal suspect in Armenian police custody said on Thursday that it is trying to contact and question two key witnesses who left Armenia just days after the incident.
The Armenian police faced on Monday more torture allegations stemming from a criminal investigation that led to the suspicious death in police custody of a resident of Charentsavan, a small town about 40 kilometers north of Yerevan.
In an unprecedented public apology, the chief of Armenia’s police service admitted on Friday misleading the nation about the recent scandalous death of a young man in police custody.
An Armenian police officer was charged on Thursday with torturing a young man who died at the police station of the central town of Charentsavan earlier this month.
President Serzh Sarkisian held out hope for Armenian electricity exports to Turkey on Tuesday just as one of his top diplomats warned that Yerevan may still formally rescind the Turkish-Armenian normalization agreements.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian slammed on Monday the official freezing of Armenian parliamentary ratification of the fence-mending agreements with Turkey, saying that President Serzh Sarkisian has opted for the worst possible response to the Turkish delay tactic.
The chief of Armenia’s police service, General Alik Sargsian, insisted on Tuesday that a young man who died in police custody last week was not ill-treated by his interrogators.
Grief-stricken relatives of a young man who died in detention last week accused the Armenian police on Monday of brutally murdering him, angrily dismissing police claims that he committed a suicide.
The chief of the Armenian police, Alik Sargsian, warned on Wednesday opponents of Armenia’s leadership against staging the kind of a revolt that brought down the government in Kyrgyzstan.
Armenia would ratify its normalization agreements with Turkey only after their validation by the Turkish parliament, President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) insisted on Monday.
Turkish and Armenian human rights organizations called on Friday for a speedy implementation of the agreements to normalize relations between their countries welcomed around the world.
President Serzh Sarkisian has agreed to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip in Washington next week, his office said on Thursday.
President Serzh Sarkisian will meet U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Washington next week, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said on Wednesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian will seek a second term in office in the next presidential election due in 2013, a leading member of his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Friday.
Former President Robert Kocharian met with Washington’s top Nagorno-Karabakh negotiator in Yerevan at the weekend to discuss the current status of Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks, his spokesman said on Thursday.
A teenage Armenian woman was among 39 people killed in twin suicide bombings on Moscow’s underground railway, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Former President Robert Kocharian dismissed on Monday long-standing opposition claims that he helped to drive the unrecognized the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) out of Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks after coming to power in Armenia.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) on Thursday defended former President Robert Kocharian’s criticism of the Armenian government’s economic policies and his calls for continued government support for the domestic construction industry.
The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) reacted on Wednesday cautiously to former President Robert Kocharian’s thinly veiled criticism of the Armenian government’s response to the global economic crisis.
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