“It is the responsibility of the Armenian authorities to protect media freedom and free expression in the country,” said Marc Behrendt, director for Europe and Eurasia programs at Freedom House.
Former Presidents of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan, Serzh Sargsyan and former Presidents of Artsakh Arkady Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan held a meeting on March 25, Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s spokesperson Arman Musinyan said on Facebook.
On March 24, the National Assembly adopted the draft law on “Amendment to the Civil Code of the Republic of Armenia” by second reading, thus tripling the financial fines for insult and slander: for insult it is equal to AMD 3 million instead of the existing threshold of AMD 1 million, and for slander it is up to AMD 6 million instead of the existing threshold of 2 million.
American-Armenian reality TV superstar Kim Kardashian, her mother Kris Jenner and sister Kourtney Kardashian have joined the challenge initiated by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) urging US President Joe Biden to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
The Biden Administration believes it is important to acknowledge history in respect to the issue of the Armenian Genocide, a White House spokesperson has told Kathimerini.
Azerbaijani forces abused Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, subjecting them to cruel and degrading treatment and torture either when they were captured, during their transfer, or while in custody at various detention facilities, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Defense Army has reported that 96 more servicemen, reservists, and volunteers had fallen during the recent battles for the defense of the homeland.
Sensational videos were sent to the e-mail address of 168.am. The videos clearly showed Advisor to Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan for Legal Affairs Anna Vardapetyan interfering in the preliminary investigation of the criminal cases launched against businessman, former president of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan and his son, Rafik Hayrapetyan by making corrections in the materials of the cases and, in essence, instructing the key role-players.
During today’s session, the Armenian government approved an amendment to the Constitutional Law on the Human Rights Defender by which the proposed amount in the budget for the Office of the Human Rights Defender will depend on the discretion of the government from now on.
As already reported, late last night, sensational videos were sent to the e-mail address of 168.am. The videos clearly showed Advisor to Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan for Legal Affairs Anna Vardapetyan interfering in the preliminary investigation of the criminal cases launched against businessman, former president of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan and his son, Rafik Hayrapetyan by making corrections in the materials of the cases and, in essence, instructing the key role-players.
