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Journalist Ani Gevorgian Freed

The police released Ani Gevorgian along with her brother Sarkis on Thursday afternoon on the grounds that they don’t leave Yerevan until a “final decision on the case” has been made. Apparently they are still potentially looking at jail time–up to five years.

Video taken by the police apparently shows Ani knocking off the hat of [...]

Peaceful Protests Resume in Liberty Square, Police React

I just read a report on RFE/RL that twelve protesters and three journalists were arrested in Liberty Square, which is where the Opera House is situated. The square only reopened a week ago after the area was dug up to build a parking garage, the construction of which took nearly two years.

Activists started protesting there [...]

Pashinian Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

Today Nikol Pashinian, editor of the daily newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak and the firebrand spokesman for the opposition movement in Armenia, who went underground after the turbulent events of March 1, 2008 but came out of hiding last summer, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for his role in “organizing mass riots.”

The decision to [...]

In The News…

I’m just catching up with some headlines printed on Hetq Online that stood out.

First and foremost are statements made by the president of Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh), Bako Sahakyan. He was in Moscow where he made an appearance in a telethon held there to collect money for reconstructing/rebuilding Shushi. President Sahakyan said that “the development of Shushi [...]

ARF Begins Sit-in Protest and Hunger Strike

A sit-in protest and hunger strike in opposition to the protocols was initiated yesterday by the ARF-Dashnaktsutiun. So far about 75 party members are camped out in front of the government building on Republic Square. They are expected to stay on site until the date of the protocols’ signing which will be in about a [...]

Bryza Criticizes Armenian Opposition

Matthew Bryza, the US envoy on the Minsk Group sponsored by the OSCE, met with the press on Friday, August 8 in Yerevan to discuss recent developments in the Nagorno-Karabagh peace process. It was most likely his last visit to Armenia.

In the press conference he was critical of Armenia’s oppositional parties which has been voicing [...]

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