On 13 November 2025, National Security Service (NSS) officers detained podcasters Vazgen Saghatelyan and Narek Samsonyan, co-hosts of the Imnemnimi political podcast on Antifake.am, as well as Antifake.am journalist Davit Fidanyan, who was later released.
Serzh Sargsyan, the third President of the Republic of Armenia (2008-2018), responded to the Armenian government’s publication of a package of negotiation documents related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Dr. Arthur Khachikyan, PhD in Political Science from Stanford University, discussed the persecution of the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church by Nikol Pashinyan’s government, Pashinyan’s disgraceful anti-church campaign, and also the possible implications of the new US National Security Strategy by the Trump Administration for Armenia with Dr. John Eibner, American human rights activist and the President of Christian Solidarity International (CSI) human rights organization John Eibner.
“Such an attack in broad daylight is highly demonstrative; it sends a short message—stop,” Minasyan said.
He also added that the continuing silence of most western International Religious Freedom advocates testifies to the declining political independence and credibility of a once vibrant human rights movement.
A video address has been released by the wife of political prisoner Narek Samsonyan, directed to the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron.
John Eibner, American human rights activist and the President of the Christian Solidarity International (CSI) human rights organization, has addressed Nikol Pashinyan’s Soviet-style persecution of the Armenian Apostolic Church on the orders of Recep Erdogan of Turkey and Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on his X post.
Here—this is where things get more interesting. We’ll speak about this shortly, but note the following: the letter to the Prosecutor General’s Office was sent by Gabrielyan and Alen Simonyan; the crime report was filed to the Anti-Corruption Committee by Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan; Gabrielyan even posted the scanned document on Facebook, and Simonyan shared it.
“The European Union is going to support Armenia in countering possible hybrid threats ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2026, as well as in strengthening cybersecurity,” during a meeting with a group of Armenian journalists in Brussels, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement Policy, Marta Kos, stated.
