Armenian News - NEWS.am presents a daily digest of Armenia-related top news as of 26.05.2020:
The ECHR held that there had been a violation by Azerbaijan of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) taken in conjunction with Article 2 (right to life).
The court found that there had been no justification for the Azerbaijani authorities’ failure to enforce the punishment of R.S.
Moreover, the applicants had provided sufficient evidence to show that R.S.’s pardon and other measures in his favor had been ethnically motivated.
The Court held, unanimously, that Azerbaijan was to pay the applicants, jointly, 15,143.33 pounds sterling in respect of costs and expenses.
This Chamber judgment is not final. During the three months following its delivery, any party may request that the case be referred to the Grand Chamber of the Court.
· In the meantime, Armenian News - NEWS.am’s website was hacked and wasn’t accessible for a while.
Emblems of Azerbaijan and notes had appeared on the website during the hacking.
· 289 COVID-19 new cases have been registered in Armenia in a day, bringing the total number to 7,402.
3,220 people have recovered so far. While 91 patients—an increase by 4— have died.
And a new COVID-19 case has been reported among Yerevan mental health center patients.
Meanwhile, parliament's speaker Ararat Mirzoyan said that he will ask MPs who do not wear masks to leave the Armenian legislature sessions’ hall.
· Tuesday's court session in the case of Armenia’s ex-President Robert Kocharyan and several other ex-officials has been rescheduled.
Opening the hearing, the presiding Judge said that a notification had been received from the hospital that Kocharyan could not attend the hearing due to his health condition, but the hospital did not say how long the condition would last.
Lawyers for former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, in turn, have filed a motion to reschedule the hearing. To note, Inessa Petrosyan, a lawyer of Ohanyan, had tested positive for COVID-19.
The court adjourned until June 2.
· President of Artsakh Arayik Haroutyunyan presented on his Facebook page the new structure of the cabinet and other public administration bodies.
He also today declared that he has appointed Ashot Hakobjanyan the new police chief and that the rank of police major general has been conferred upon him. Levon Mnatsakanyan was the police chief before the appointment.
