Topic: Human Rights

By Elizabeth Samson On February 18, 2025, former Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan began a hunger strike to protest his continued imprisonment in Baku. Azerbaijan holds Vardanyan, a philanthropist, billionaire,[...]

By Sevag Hagopian Many ask what is happening in Syria these days. To summarize: Massacre. The victim is always the ordinary person. The remnants of the former regime are committing[...]

WASHINGTON — Those of us in the diaspora are seeing increasingly worrisome pictures from the trials of Karabakh (Artsakh) Armenian political prisoners in Azerbaijan. The trials, near-universally acknowledged as shams,[...]

To the International Community: As major Armenian diasporan organizations worldwide and NGOs working in the Republic of Armenia, we the undersigned, are writing to urge you to take immediate action[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on Monday, February 24, criticized for the first time the trials of former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed in Azerbaijan. Mirzoyan also complained that[...]

By Ruzanna Stepanian YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am) — The long list of accusations leveled by Azerbaijan against Armenian businessman and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan includes a plot to assassinate Azerbaijani diplomats serving abroad.[...]

WASHINGTON — The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative announced on February 11 that 2024 Aurora Prize Laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege has selected recipients of the first cycle of participatory grants to local[...]

BERLIN — On January 17, the trials of 23 people illegally arrested by Azerbaijan as a result of the attack on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in September 2023 began in Baku. Several[...]

By Robert Aydabirian Special to the Mirror-Spectator PARIS — Organized and hosted by the Sorbonne for the United Nations (SONU), Humanitas Prima and the Association de soutien à l’Artsakh (Association[...]

By Levon Zourabian Special to the Mirror-Spectator The following op-ed is a response to an op-ed by Hikmet Hajiyev – the advisor to the president of Azerbaijan – which Newsweek[...]