On 13 March, during a phone call with his family, Ruben Vardanyan attempted to deliver a public address to Azerbaijan’s Ombudsperson, Sabina Aliyeva. The call was forcibly terminated.
Dr. Artur Khachikyan, a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University, interviewed Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired US Army Colonel, military analyst, and former Chief of Staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention expresses grave concern over recent remarks by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in which he compared Armenian political detainees and prisoners of war to Nazi leaders convicted at the Nuremberg trials.
American human rights activist and former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth is simply shocked why Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is so afraid of free and fair elections.
Aram Hamparian,, the executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) says a recently leaked communication from Apollo Strategic Communications offers a rare glimpse into what he describes as long-running efforts to undermine Armenian advocacy in Washington.
Dr. Arthur Khachikian, Stanford PhD in Political Science had an interview with Arta Moeini, Research Director, Institute of Peace and Diplomacy and James W. Carden, editor and columnist at The American Conservative, former U.S. State Department adviser, and a senior advisor to the American Committee on the US-Russia Accord (ACURA).
This is a travesty. It is ludicrous.
On February 17, the military court in Baku sentenced Ruben Vardanyan to 20 years of imprisonment. This verdict was not the product of an independent and impartial judicial process. It was the foreseeable outcome of proceedings driven by political considerations and fundamentally incompatible with the standards of a fair trial.
The verdict by a military court in Azerbaijan is devastating, though not unexpected. From the moment of his arbitrary detention 874 days ago, it became evident that the outcome of this process had been predetermined.
