The Court of Appeal, chaired by Serzhik Avetisyan, today dismissed the motions by Nikol Pashinyan's attorneys and the prosecution but applied amnesty to the "Haykakan Zhamanak" editor-in-chief Nikol Pashinyan.
On March 10 the US Ambassador Mary Jovanovich will award civil activist Mariam Sukhudyan with a medal of "Brave Woman". The ceremony will take place at the US embassy in Armenia. Mariam Sukhudyan is an activist of the Armenian nature protection; in particular, she participated in the movement in defense of Teghut forests.
Minister of Justice Gevorg Danielyan replied to the letter sent on February 3 by the Group of Public Monitors implementing supervision over the criminal executive institutions and bodies of the Ministry of Justice of RA.
The book "Violence, Pressure and Legal Actions against Reporters and Media Outlets in Armenia in 2008-2009: Cases and Analysis" published by "Investigative Journalists" NGO with the assistance of OSCE Yerevan Office, includes cases of violence against reporters for the last two years.
Arman Danielyan, Chairman of Civil Society Institute, representative of the International Federation for Human Rights, participates in the Russian human rights activist Aleksey Sokolov's trial as an international observer, as reported by kasparov.ru electronic periodical. Danielyan arrived in Yekaterinburg on March 1.