Armenia’s Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a three-year prison sentence given to Gagik Jahangirian, a former deputy prosecutor-general strongly opposed to the government, for his alleged resistance to police officers that arrested him more than a year ago.
Activists of Armenia’s two largest pro-government parties reportedly clashed in Yerevan late on Tuesday in a dispute related to the upcoming municipal elections.
A leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) accused President Serzh Sarkisian on Monday of jeopardizing Armenia’s national security with his diplomatic overtures to Turkey.
In what has become a pattern, the Armenian authorities again seriously restricted transport communication between Yerevan and the rest of the country ahead of an opposition rally in the capital on Friday.
Armenia’s Constitutional Court has suspended the controversial registration of new voters for next month’s mayoral elections in Yerevan which their sole opposition contender says is aimed at facilitating vote rigging.
Armenia’s largest chemical enterprise has recalled hundreds of idled workers and resumed its work after a nearly five-month stoppage blamed by its management on the global economic crisis.
