Topic: Human Rights
YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan mentioned the continuing imprisonment of 19 Armenians, including former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Azerbaijan but stopped short of explicitly condemning it when he[...]
YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Ruben Vardanyan, a prominent Armenian businessman and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier captured by Azerbaijan in 2023, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday, February 17, at[...]
At Stake Is Trump’s Desire to Cement Peace in the South Caucasus, and the Commitment They Made to Protect Christian Communities On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijani dictator Ilham Aliyev ordered[...]
YEREVAN (Zartonk) — The world-renowned religious freedom organization Christian Solidarity International (CSI) sent a fact-finding mission to Armenia the first week of February to investigate persecution of the Armenian Apostolic[...]
By Susan Badalian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Armenian law-enforcement authorities have indicted six more bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church, raising to ten the total number of senior clergymen prosecuted amid[...]
By Elizaveta Chukharova The human rights organization NC SOS Crisis Group has launched a petition calling on Armenia to release the body of Aishat Baimuradova to be buried in Chechnya.[...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, and the Friends of Hrant Dink, Inc. Boston, have rescheduled the Annual Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture. Originally planned for[...]
UPDATE: “Friends of Hrant, Inc, Boston, regretfully announces that the Annual Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Delal Dink on January 27 at Harvard University, has been postponed[...]
By Naira Bulghadarian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Armenia’s government remains reluctant to provide lawyers representing an ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed by Azerbaijan with medical records which they say could[...]
Last week, the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (ADLP) Coordinated Press published its appeal. It pointed out the circumstances hindering the convening of the Episcopal Assembly invited by the Catholicos of[...]