This evidence-led archive covers six files with convictions or bounded adjudicated findings and two unresolved files involving military death and protest-era accountability. Court findings, acquittals, investigative failures and allegations remain clearly separated.
This section records responsibility established through court findings. Status labels remain limited to the defendants and conduct addressed by each judgment.
A two-week armed seizure and hostage crisis left three police officers dead. The court convicted Smbat Barseghyan of two murders and acquitted Armen Bilyan on the third murder charge.
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Seven defendants were convicted, but the alleged organizer, opposition figures and the victim’s family disputed whether the trial exposed the full sponsorship.
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A presidential security officer received a suspended sentence. Prosecutors later cited new group-assault evidence and sought a new trial; wider responsibility remains unresolved.
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Seven family members were killed. Valery Permyakov was convicted by an Armenian court, received life imprisonment and was later transferred to Russia to serve the sentence.
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Five gunmen killed eight officials and held hostages overnight. The group surrendered; after a lengthy trial, six defendants received life sentences and a seventh received 14 years.
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The military doctor died after a restaurant beating. Six employees received 12-year sentences that Armenia’s Court of Appeal upheld.
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A conscript's death was closed as suicide, but the European Court found serious forensic and investigative gaps. No killer was identified and the Chamber judgment was not yet final.
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Ten people died during post-election clashes. The European Court found right-to-life violations for seven deaths and ineffective investigations into all nine deaths before it.
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A. Margaryan’s file concerns one conscript death and forensic gaps. The March 2008 file concerns ten protest-era deaths and a separate European Court judgment. Neither has a final domestic conviction identifying individual criminal responsibility.
State responsibility under the European Convention is kept distinct from individual criminal guilt. Non-final Chamber judgments are labelled as such.
Flags, architecture, records and timeline motifs identify the archive without inventing portraits, reenactments, crime scenes or evidentiary images.
Crime by Region currently publishes eight verified Armenia case files.
The archive includes the 2016 Erebuni siege, March 2008 protest killings, Tigran Naghdalian’s murder, Poghos Poghosyan’s killing, A. Margaryan’s conscript death, the Avetisyan family murders, the 1999 Parliament shooting and the Vahe Avetyan case.
No. Six files contain convictions or bounded adjudicated findings. A. Margaryan’s death and individual criminal accountability for the March 2008 protest deaths remain unresolved.
Yes, when reliable sources support a substantive case file without speculation or duplication.
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