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.
The Azerbaijani authorities have completely demolished an Armenian Church in Mekhakavan, a village that fell under Azeri control after the 2020 war.
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.
Recently, cases of targeting of journalists by representatives of the incumbent authorities have become more frequent.
Human Rights Defender of Armenia Arman Tatoyan has released facts on the policy of spreading ethnic-religious based hatred by the top leadership of Azerbaijan.
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 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) calls for the United States to provide urgently needed humanitarian aid for the people of Artsakh who were forced to flee their homes during the unprovoked attack by Azerbaijan and Turkey that displaced more than 50,000 ethnic Armenians in the region.
The Union of the Armenian Communities in Israel organized a demonstration on Tuesday to protest Elbit Systems, an international defense electronics company that manufactures weapons supplied to Azerbaijan, Asbarez reports.
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.
