Armenia has temporarily moved its consulate-general in Aleppo to a safer location in Syria’s largest city after more than a week of fierce fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels, official Yerevan announced over the weekend.
A court in Yerevan sentenced two former executives of Armenia’s state pension fund to seven and three years in prison on Monday in the first trial stemming from large-scale fraud in the payment of social benefits alleged by law-enforcement authorities.
Karen Andreasian, the state human rights ombudsman, urged the Armenian authorities on Tuesday to do more to combat ill-treatment of criminal suspects and other individuals, saying that the practice remains widespread.
