The court reached another verdict for the March 1 case. This time the court sentenced schizophrenic Gabriel Gabrielyan, who is the storage owner of the “Malatia” produce market and relative of NA Deputy Hakob Hakobyan.

“The killer is on his own,” said today member of the Armenian National Congress Davit Shahnazaryan and expressed serious doubts that there was one marksman on March 1, as chairman of the NA March 1 temporary commission and head of the Special Investigative Service Vahagn Harutyunyan have declared.

The RA Foreign Affairs Ministry's press and information department released information regarding the visit of RA Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandyan to Istanbul.

The Council of Armenian Advocates’ Chamber has renewed Advocate Mushegh Shushanyan’s license. The latter presents the interests of five detainees in connection to March 1 events.

Today the Committee for the Protection of Political Prisoners ran into another obstacle. The Committee was forbidden to hold an event regarding the problems of Armenian political problems at the Tekeyan Centre.

Armenian MP Hakob Hakobyan detained in connection to the March 1 events suffers from dysbacteriosis. He is presently receiving feeding in the central hospital for convicts, Hakobyan's Advocate Melanya Arustamyan told A1+.

“Dilettantes are capable of presenting the hell to the best advantage,” HHSh board member Aram Manukyan said regarding the attempts aimed at presenting the Madrid principles over the Karabakh conflict settlement in a favourable light.

The House Democratic Caucus met this week to select its leaders for the 111th Congress reported the Armenian Assembly. Armenian Caucus Member, and long-time supporter of Armenian Genocide Reaffirmation, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) retained her position as Speaker of the House while Rep.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today announced that there are only two sides to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijan and Armenia.

“The one who cedes our territories is a traitor!” shouted members of the the Miatsum (Unification) Initiative who staged a protest action in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia today morning. They handed over a note of reminder to Armenian FM Edward Nalbandyan on political and legal consequences of territorial concessions.

Deterioration of Armenian-Azerjainai relations is well perceived in Armenian frontier villages Aygedzor and Chinari. The Azeri side opens machine gun-fire on Armenian settlements almost every day.

The Court of Appeal will soon hear the appeal of Mushegh Saghatelyan, former head of the Penitentiary Department of the RoA Ministry of Justice and Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s proxy during the February 19 presidential election. The information was given by Saghatelyan’s Advocate Seda Safaryan.

The five attorneys of the “Case of the Seven” separate from the “March 1” case met today with EU Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg. The meeting did not really please the attorneys, at least not attorney Hovik Arsenyan.

Twenty eight political prisoners in penitentiaries of Yerevan are on a one-day hunger strike, as press speaker of head of the RA Justice Ministry’s Department of Penitentiary Arsen Babayan told “A1+”.

Serzh Sargsyan ratified the laws on “State fine” and “Licensing”, but the laws will be in effect after official notice. With the ratification of these laws, individual taxi drivers will pay a 25,000 dram state fine instead of the former 200,000 drams.

Melissa Brown, wife of former Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Arzumanyan, was one of the wives of the political prisoners who held a protest today in front of the Government building.

The RA committee on defense of political prisoners and the persecuted joined the 24 political prisoners who had declared a hunger strike today in jailhouses and the eight members of the committee will participate during work hours.

Serzh Sargsyan met with political party leaders at the Karen Demirchyan sport/concert complex behind closed doors in order to avoid populism and hold an open meeting.

Joint statement of Armenian National Congress and “Heritage” party on activities of the Expert Fact-Finding Group

RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan met with EU Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg.

The meeting of President Serzh Sargsyan with party leaders on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has kicked off at the Yerevan Karen Demirchyan sports/complex center and it is behind closed doors.

“There was no state appropriation by force in Armenia; it was the opposite. There was force applied against peaceful demonstrators and power was transferred from one to the next,” told “A1+” leader of the “Republic” party Aram Sargsyan. Based on that, according to him, it is “unserious” to talk about amnesty.

The People's Party of Armenia (HZhK) has spurned Srzh Sargysan's invitation to participate in a November 20 discussion over the current phase of the Karabakh conflict regulation.

Today the Court of Kentron and Nork-Marash districts at the head of Justice Gagik Avetisyan announced the verdict of Smbat Aivazyan, member of the political board of the Hanrapetutyun Party. The latter was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.