The Council of Europe’s anti-torture Committee (CPT) gave Armenia a generally favorable assessment in its report issued today summing up its preliminary findings of its September 2023 visit to several prisons and police stations in Armenia.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan laid flowers at a Yerevan memorial to the victims of the March 1, 2008 presidential election protests that rocked the Armenian capital and left ten dead and hundreds wounded.
Berge Setrakian will retire as President of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) after twenty-two years of service in accordance with the age limit requirements of the AGBU’s bylaws.