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20 հոկտեմբեր, 2019 11:44

Yazidi Activist Mirza Dinnayi Announced 2019 Aurora Prize Laureate

Working on behalf of the Yazidi community, Mirza Dinnayi has dedicated his whole life to saving the victims of the Iraq war, evacuating women and children from territories controlled by ISIS and providing those tortured and violated with rehabilitation and support. It was Dinnayi who brought to Germany the future Sakharov Prize Laureate Lamya Haji Bashar. Today, she is a renowned human rights activist and has one of Aurora’s scholarships named after her.

19 հոկտեմբեր, 2019 09:05

Head of Armenia’s Constitutional Court Under Investigation: Emil Sanamyan’s Commentary

Armenia’s Special Investigative Service has launched a criminal case against the head of the country’s Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan Days earlier, members of the Constitutional Court refused to follow the demands of the parliamentary majority to oust Tovmasian National Security Service summoned Tovmasian’s father and two daughters for questioning  Emil Sanamyan, editor of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies Focus on Karabakh platform, talks to CivilNet’s editorinchief Karen Harutyunyan about the situation around Hrayr Tovmasyan and Armenia’s current political situation Emil, how do you see these steps by Armenia’s law enforcement agencies What we are seeing is a campaign by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to force Tovmasyan and other judges who do not support his position on keeping former President Robert Kocharyan jailed to resign Investigations by National Security Service, Special Investigative Service, as well as the parliamentary declaration, b

16 հոկտեմբեր, 2019 13:21

Armenia Should Be Cautious in Managing its Relations with Israel Respecting Iran’s Redlines: Iranian Expert

Iranian public opinion and the Iranian government alike, highly value the country’s ties with Armenia and the overall perception about Tehran-Yerevan relations have been always positive. As a result, almost all the analyses about Rouhani’s recent visit to Armenia were positive, both in terms of bilateral ties with Yerevan and multilateral diplomacy within the EAEU. As for the Iranian view toward political changes in Armenia, the overwhelming view in Iran was that it’s a purely domestic issue. Iran’s only concern was the possibility that the events might have caused instability in Armenia, which would affect Iran directly because of its neighborhood with Iran. But fortunately, the calm came back to Armenia very soon and the new administration showed that it’s stick to the policy of good relations with Iran.