Gyumri massacre

January 13, 2019 12:16

• Militaries ignore protest action in Gyumri (+video)

  Servicemen of the Russian military base in Gyumri failed to come out to the participants of the rally demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Armenia.

January 12, 2018 21:04

• Three years after family massacre in Gyumri: incidents involving soldiers continue

  Over the past three years, the murder of the Avetisyan family members committed on January 12, 2015, for which Valery Permyakov, a Russian regular soldier, was sentenced, became the most resonant, but far from the only incident involving soldiers of the Russian military base in Gyumri.

May 18, 2017 00:03

• Russia and Armenia agree on extradition of Valery Permyakov

  Valery Permyakov, a Russian soldier, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing seven Avetisyan family members in Gyumri, will serve his sentence in his homeland, reports the Armenian Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

March 23, 2017 05:03

• ECtHR prolongs deadline for receiving objections to Russia's replies in Mardiros Demerchyan's case

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has extended until April 1 the deadline for receiving objections from the defence to the response of the Russian authorities in the case of Mardiros Demerchyan, a Sochi builder, who claimed to be tortured.

March 07, 2017 19:26

• Defence states court’s reluctance to consider complaint of Avetisyans’ relatives

  The successors of the Avetisyan family have repeatedly sent a complaint to the Court of Cassation demanding a new trial in the case on the family massacre in Gyumri. Their advocate Aramazd Kiviryan has stated that the court refuses to consider the successors’ complaint for far-fetched reasons.

January 12, 2017 18:03

• Avetisyans' relatives demand new trial of family murder in Gyumri

  The successors of the Avetisyan family have filed a complaint to the Cassation Court demanding a re-examination of the massacre in Gyumri by the first-instance court. Should the complaint be rejected, they intend to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

December 19, 2016 10:17

• Verdict to Permyakov upheld

  Today, the Armenia's Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the verdict to Valery Permyakov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a family in Gyumri.

December 05, 2016 17:26

• In Valery Permyakov's case, trial postponed because of absence of victim party's representative

  In the criminal case against Valery Permyakov, sentenced for killing a family in Gyumri, the Court of Appeal has decided to postpone the hearing to listen to Arthur Sakunts, a representative of the successors of the deceased Avetisyan family members, who did not come to the trial.

November 18, 2016 15:45

• Court refuses to challenge prosecutor in Valery Permyakov's case

  In the case on the murder of the Avetisyan family members in Gyumri, public prosecutor has failed to make efforts to ensure the interests of the Armenian side and the victim party, states a representative of the successors of the Avetisyan family. The court of appeal has refused in disqualification of the public prosecutor.

October 01, 2016 13:53

• Russian Army: after Permyakov's case, requirements for recruits' mental health tightened

  Russian military commissars have received new methodologies for defining the mental state of conscripts with more stringent requirements for the recruits, the General Staff of the Russian Army has announced. The decision was made after a little more than a month after sentencing the soldier Valery Permyakov for the massacre committed by him in Gyumri, Armenia, which became possible, according to the injured party, due to the lack of proper control over recruiting soldiers in Russia.

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