The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has dismissed an appeal filed more than three years ago by the former chairman and three other members of Armenia’s Constitutional Court against their dismissal engineered by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenian judges on Wednesday criticized the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) for sacking their colleagues and accused it of trying to effectively rig the election of a new member of the state body overseeing the country’s courts.
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Three weeks after a stated decriminalization of slander in Armenia, law-enforcement authorities are continuing to formally prosecute individuals accused of insulting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian or other senior officials.