Topic: Arrests

By Robert Zargarian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — A 71-year-old resident of Yerevan is facing charges carrying up to two years in prison after hurling an apple towards Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan[...]

YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — The former mayor of the Nagorno-Karabakh capital Stepanakert, David Sargsyan, was arrested on May 26, and is to be detained for 20 days, his lawyer Ruben Melikyan[...]

By Arshaluys Barseghyan Armenia has detained a former Nagorno-Karabakh official on espionage charges following his move to Armenia months after the region’s surrender. News of Sargis Galstyan’s arrest surfaced on[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — A senior executive of a major software company and her former colleague related to parliament speaker Alen Simonyan were released from custody on Monday, February 12, about[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — An association of Armenian tech companies has condemned law-enforcement authorities for arresting the founder of one of its leading members, saying that the criminal case against him[...]

STEPANAKERT (RFE/RL, Public Radio of Armenia) — On August 28 President of the Artsakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan called an emergency meeting of the Security Council upon the arrest of three[...]

By Naira Bulghadarian A former diplomat and his son running Armenia’s leading classical music orchestra were arrested at the weekend on fraud charges denied by them. The accusations stem from[...]

By Robert Zargarian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — A woman accused of attempting to “kidnap” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s son was released on Friday, June 9,  after a court in Yerevan gave[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sought to justify on May 22 the arrest of a grief-stricken woman accused of attempting to “kidnap” his son which has sparked street[...]

By Susan Badalian and Naira Bulghadarian YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenian law-enforcement authorities have opened more than a dozen criminal cases against participants of daily opposition demonstrations aimed at forcing Prime[...]