Armenia
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary democracy
- CONSTITUTION
- approved by referendum on July 5, 1995; amended 2005, 2015, last in 2020
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- civil law system; not subject to the jurisdiction of the ICJ
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly (Azgayin Zhoghov)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Court of Cassation or Court of Appeal (composed of the Criminal Chamber with a president and 5 judges and the Civil and Administrative Chamber with a president and 10 judges – with specializations in both civil and administrative matters); constitutional court (composed of 9 judges); criminal and civil appellate courts; administrative appellate court; first instance courts; specialized administrative and bankruptcy courts
RELIGIONS
Armenian Apostolic Christian 92.6%, Evangelical Christian 1%, other 2.4%, none 1.1%, unspecified 2.9% (estimate 2011)
From the country
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe must allow Armenia an exception...
The Council of Europe must allow Armenia an exception in the issue of capital punishment, the leader of the faction of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Aghvan Vardanyan, said
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The decision to admit Armenia to the Council of Europe...
The decision to admit Armenia to the Council of Europe was right, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] Lord Russell-Johnston told the Armenian parliament
- JULY 8, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan told a visiting...
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan told a visiting Council of Europe official in Yerevan that Armenia would not carry out death sentences
- APRIL 25, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Armenia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- MARCH 28, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy speaker Tigran Torosyan said the Armenian parliament...
Deputy speaker Tigran Torosyan said the Armenian parliament needs to make changes in the special part of the Criminal Code concerning the abrogation of the death penalty as part of its responsibilities towards the Council of Europe
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The former Prime Minister of Armenia, Aram Sargsian...
The former Prime Minister of Armenia, Aram Sargsian said that the five perpetrators of the act of terrorism in the Armenian parliament, on February 27, 1999, in which his brother Vazgen Sargsian was killed, would be sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 14, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian Kurds protested in Yerevan demanding the resolution...
Armenian Kurds protested in Yerevan demanding the resolution of the Kurdish Cause and the liberation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, sentenced to death in Turkey
- JANUARY 25, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenia was officially admitted to the Council of Europe
Armenia was officially admitted to the Council of Europe
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Several hundreds of Armenian Kurds held a rally to...
Several hundreds of Armenian Kurds held a rally to express their support of the PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan when the European Court for Human Rights Protection began to hear Ocalan's appeal against his death sentence
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Gagik Arutyunyan, chairman of the Armenian Constitutional...
Gagik Arutyunyan, chairman of the Armenian Constitutional Court, addressing a seminar held at the Constitutional Court on the subject of the Armenian constitution's conformity to the regulations of the European convention to protect human rights and basic
- JULY 28, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Gang members Armen Ter Sahakian and his cousin Alik...
Gang members Armen Ter Sahakian and his cousin Alik Grigorian were sentenced to capital punishment with complete confiscation of property
- JULY 17, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation...
The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner in Yerevan met lawmakers to discuss alternative military service, the abolition of capital punishment and the freedom of conscienc