Past newspaper writes the following: “According to Past newspaper’s information, today another attempt will be made to institute a criminal case against Vice-President of the Republican Party of Armenia Armen Ashotyan, against whom similar attempts have already been made.
The European People’s Party (EPP) hosted its 7th Eastern Partnership (EaP) Leaders’ Meeting via video conference on 17 June. The meeting included several EPP heads of state and government, as well as party leaders from EU Member States and EaP countries (see full list of participants below). EPP President Donald Tusk delivered a statement after the meeting which is available here.
At this stage, we can see that the investigators’ and prosecutors’ actions are not based on the requirements of the law. As we know, in a number of high-profile criminal cases, they have frozen even the assets of third parties who have no status at all in these particular criminal cases. The purpose of these actions is to make sure that these assets are not managed in any way until they are forfeited in civil proceedings. Such policy is unacceptable.
The Criminal Court of Appeal approved the appeal of attorneys of 2nd President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan on changing the precautionary measure selected against the ex-President.
Third President of the Republic of Armenia, President of the Republican Party of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan partook in a Brussels-hosted videoconference of European People’s Party (EPP) Eastern Partnership leaders, chaired by EPP President Donald Tusk.
Vice-President of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, speaking of an initiative of the opposition factions, more particularly the “Prosperous Armenia”, to apply to the Constitutional Court with respect to the legality of the decision relating to the organization of peaceful assemblies during the state of emergency, told that “Prosperous Armenia”, at every occasion relating to the debate over the Constitutional Court, has expressed its agreement with the idea that there is indeed an issue with that Court.
One of the most discussed topics of the last two days in the context of the situation around the name of Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan is the disproportionate police force used against wrestling champion of Europe Roman Amoyan, who was laid down on the ground by 13 policemen when protesting against the arrest of Gagik Tsarukyan.
The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the initial clinical trial results from the United Kingdom (UK) that show dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, can be lifesaving for patients who are critically ill with COVID-19. For patients on ventilators, the treatment was shown to reduce mortality by about one third, and for patients requiring only oxygen, mortality was cut by about one fifth, according to preliminary findings shared with WHO.
On the background of rampant Covid-19, the public health crisis, social and economic crises deepening with every day, the extension of the state of emergency declared in Armenia is exclusively used by incumbent authorities to add veil of lawfulness to political persecution.
Opposition Prosperous Armenia faction head Gagik Tsarukyan has been stripped of parliamentary immunity.
