Armenia
Head of Armenia’s Supreme Judicial Council resigns
Two weeks after a recording in which acting Supreme Judicial Council head Gagik Jhangiryan could be heard apparently threatening his predecessor and pressuring him to resign, the Council has announced Jhangiryan’s resignation citing a ‘health condition’. The Supreme Judicial Council is Armenia’s highest judicial body and is authorised to appoint and dismiss judges. In the tape published on 20 June by the former head of the Supreme Judicial Council Ruben Vardazaryan, Jhangiryan — still a re
