• The Right to Correspondence, Submission of Applications and Complaints is Violated

  

  17.02.2011

  The Group of Public Observers Conducting Public Monitoring of Penitentiary Institutions and Bodies of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia has recorded that the administration of the «Artik» penitentiary institution violates the rights of the Editor of «Haykakan Zhamanak» daily Nikol Pashinyan to correspondence and submission of applications and complaints.

  
  

• Constitutional Court rejected Pashinyan’s application

  

  24.04.2010

  On April 23 Constitutional Court rejected the application of Nikol Pashinyan, Chief Editor of "Haykakan Zhamanak", candidate for deputy of the National Assembly, on finding the election results of N10 electoral precincts invalid.

  
  

• Constitutional Court Session on Pashinyan Case Postponed

  09.04.2010

  After announcing a break to convoke a procedural session the RA Constitutional Court made a decision to examine Nikol Pashinyan's case in written proceedings and appointed the next session on April 23.

  
  

• Prison is not the place where a journalist should be

  

  08.04.2010

  One of the participants of "Justice, new challenges-the right to an effective remedy before an independent tribunal" Iranian human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi visited Nikol Pashinyan, chief editor of "Haykakan Zhamanak" newspaper, at the "Nubarashen" penitentiary institution. She also visited Sasun Mikayelyan, Sarkis Hatspanyan, and Zhora Sapeyan.

  
  

• Verdict Upheld

  

  09.03.2010

  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.

  
  

• The court has examined both the prosecutors' and the attorneys' appeals

  03.03.2010

  On March 3 the Court of Appeal has examined the appeals for the Haykakan Zhamanak editor-in-chief Nikol Pashinyan's case. The court has examined both the prosecutors' and the attorneys' appeals.

  
  

• Minister Reconfirms His Statement

  

  24.02.2010

  Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan expressed an opinion that editor-in-chief of Haykakan Zhamanak daily Nikol Pashinyan's sentence term, convicted to 7 years of imprisonment, has to be halved (for the period not carried yet). He noted that the amnesty declared on June 19, 2009 by the National Assembly can be applied to the opposition politician.

  
  

• Appeal in Pashinyan’s Case

  22.02.2010

  Lusine Sahakyan and Yervand Varosyan, attorneys of Nikol Pashinyan, chief editor of Haykakan Zhamanak, appealed today to the Court of Appeal against the January 19 decision of the Kentron and Nork-Marash court of general jurisdiction, demanding to acquit him. Lusine Sahakyan informed about that.

  
  

• Court Had to Announce Amnesty

  11.02.2010

  "The letter of the law requires that when there is no unequivocal attitude to the contents and there are contradictions, these contradictions must be interpreted in favor of the citizen and not the state institution"

  
  

• Nikole Pashinyan was convicted to 7 years of imprisonment

  18.01.2010

  The court of first instance of Kentron and Nork Marash communities with the head of Mnatsakan Martirosyan published the decision about the editor of "Haykakan Zhamanak" paper Nikole Pashinyan. The court acquitted a charge against Pashinyan about 316 Article, part 1 of the Criminal Code (exerting violence towards the policeman), instead, found him guilty and gave 7 years of imprisonment on the basis of Article 225, part 1 (organization of mass disorder). The court gave stricter punishment than the prosecutor demanded.

  
  

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