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Armenia * Yesterday, Archbishop Michael Ajapahyan’s appeal against his pre-trial detention was denied — instead, the issue of lifting the preventative measures against Ajapahyan will be discussed during the preliminary hearings in the main case. Ajapahyan was arrested on 28 June and charged with spreading calls through mass media aimed at usurping power and overthrowing the constitutional order. * According to Tigran Kirakosyan, a deputy head within Armenia’s Investigative Committee, human tr
Armenia * Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan has claimed that Georgia has allowed the Armenian lorries carrying brandies through to Russia. He claimed that the issue, which has been ongoing for nearly a month, had finally been ‘resolved’, and that more than 96% of lorries held up in Georgia were allowed to cross the border into Russia. * A court in Yerevan has found Aram Navasardyan, who hit and killed a pregnant woman while leading Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s motorcade in 2022, guilty. The
Regional * Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the proposed so-called ‘Zangezur corridor’ ‘is pursued as a cover for broader geopolitical projects’. According to him, the primary goal of which was to ‘weaken the Axis of Resistance [referring to Iran’s regional network of proxies], sever Iran’s link with the Caucasus, and impose a land blockade on Iran and Russia in the region’s south’. Armenia * Armenia had not only not accepted t
Armenia * The authorities are investigating the death of a conscripted border guard as a suicide, saying he was negligently driven to kill himself. Azerbaijan * The health condition of the imprisoned director of Abzas Media, Ulvi Hasanli, is rapidly deteriorating as he enters the eighth day of his hunger strike. His wife, Rubaba Guliyeva, wrote on social media saying that his blood pressure was high, and that he had lost seven kilograms since beginning his hunger strike. Hasanli is current
