My grandmother Hasmik Kanayan passed away on the night of April 24, 1998, with her innermost wishes unaccomplished: visiting her sister Heghine’s and her husband’s tombs, and returning back to her birthplace, Igdir, which she had been forced to flee at the age of 10.
Ucom has provided free Wi-Fi coverage to smart bus stops in four communities of Ijevan.
Artsakh Union President Artak Beglaryan and International and Comparative Law Center representative Philippe Raffi Kalfayan, together with representatives of a number of other Armenian non-governmental organizations, participated in the discussions of the UN Committee against Torture in Geneva on April 22-23. The Committee was examining the periodic report of Azerbaijan. They also held a number of meetings with various UN mechanisms.
Overwhelming International Support and Pressure Leads Azeris to Allow Communications With Family After Twenty Days in Isolation as Humanitarian and Business Leader Faces Deteriorating Health
Message of the Third President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on the Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide
The Department of Information and Public Relations of the Prime Minister’s Office has announced that “the ceremony of paying tribute by the top leadership of the Republic of Armenia on the occasion of the 109th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide on April 24 will be ceremonial” (it will be broadcast live on an open channel by the Public Television Company). The same message states that the Prime Minister’s staff will only accredit photographers to cover the event, and all media representatives will be allowed to enter the memorial from 09:30.
Following the family’s urgent appeal to the international community regarding his hunger strike, Ruben Vardanyan was allowed to call his family for the first time, after more than two weeks of incommunicado detention.
The family of Ruben Vardanyan, illegally detained in Azerbaijan, announced today that he entered into a hunger strike to demand the immediate and unconditional release of himself and the other Armenian prisoners illegally held in Baku.
Global Humanitarian and Business Leader, Ruben Vardanyan, Demands Immediate and Unconditional Release of All Armenian Prisoners
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined its affiliate in Armenia, the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA), in denouncing the authorities’ misuse of anti-hooliganism legislation to suppress press freedom and freedom of expression. The EFJ and UJA demand the immediate release of Narek Samsonyan and Vazgen Saghatelyan, co-authors of the podcast “Imnemnimi”, imprisoned for criticising Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
