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Regional * Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have visited Armenian detainees in Azerbaijan. The ICRC told Azerbaijani pro-government APA that the prisoners ‘received family parcels, were met in private and were given a possibility to receive family news’. In turn, APA noted that on 17 June, the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons announced it would soon suspend the activities of the ICRC Representation in Azerbaijan. Armeni

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Thursday, 19 June 2025

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Armenia * Russian–Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan has been placed under two months of pre-trial detention. On Wednesday, Karapetyan was charged with ‘public calls for the usurpation of power [...]’. Before that, his home in Yerevan was raided following his statements in defence of the Armenian Apostolic Church amidst ongoing tensions between it and the government, saying that ‘if the politicians fail, then we will participate in our own way in all of this’. * Armenian Foreign Minister

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Wednesday, 18 June 2025

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Armenia * Karapetyan’s house in Yerevan was searched on Tuesday evening for several hours and he was escorted out of his house in the night by law enforcement officers. The searches followed his pro-church statement in an interview with News.am, Karapetyan said that ‘if the politicians fail, then we will participate in our own way in all of this’. * Armenian–Russian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan has been charged with public calls to seize power, according to his lawyer Armen Feroyan. Feroyan

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Tuesday, 17 June 2025

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Regional * The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), one of the largest and most influential Armenian–American lobbying groups, has raised alarms regarding ‘the prospect that Azerbaijan will use the Israel–Iran conflict as cover for renewed aggression against Armenia’. They called upon the US government to ‘take immediate action to de-escalate’ the situation, as well as to ‘draw a clear red line against any attempt by Azerbaijan, Turkey, or any other country to further destabilise the

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