21/05/2020
The drafts of the new Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes were approved during today’s session of the Government.

21/05/2020
The Ministry of Justice continues to highly appreciate the observations of the legal community regarding the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (the Lanzarote Convention).

20/05/2020
Pursuant to the operations procedure, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has launched hearings over the activities of the public administration bodies of the Republic of Armenia for the year 2019. The first report for the reporting year was the report on the activities of the Ministry of Justice delivered by Minister Rustam Badasyan.

15/05/2020
Essential food and hygienic accessories have been provided to the families of 128 beneficiaries of the Probation Service of the Ministry of Justice who are in difficult life situations.

13/05/2020
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Rustam Badasyan has addressed the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, addressing the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) with questions regarding the solution of the crisis in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia.

13/05/2020
Article 18 of the Council of Europe Convention on Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse defines the crimes related to sexual abuse of children.

08/05/2020
As a result of reforms in the bankruptcy sector, based on the statements of claim submitted by the Bankruptcy Court, starting from 15 April 2020, the drawing of lots for candidates for bankruptcy administrators are held by the Ministry of Justice through a special computer software; moreover, compared with the past, now election is held under the territorial principle, according to a special algorithm and from the list of bankruptcy administrators who serve in the area that is relevant to the given case.

07/05/2020
Within the scope of the report on implementation of the 2019 Programme of the Government, Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan presented the activities carried out for the fight against corruption and equality of everyone before the law, justice and human rights protection.

06/05/2020
During the hour of announcements in the National Assembly yesterday, Deputy of the “Bright Armenia” faction Ani Samsonyan, touching upon the ban on acceptance of deliverables and granting of visits at penitentiary institutions due to the regime of state of emergency, made, once again, a number of claims that do not correspond to the reality.

30/04/2020
From now on, the information in the register of the Agency for State Register of Legal Entities will be available online for persons carrying out media activity free of charge. Let us mention that, in the past, the mass media used to pay a state duty to receive information regarding each legal entity.

28/04/2020
On 27 April 2020, the Standing Committee on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs of the National Assembly held a discussion on the draft Law “On making amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia” submitted by the “Bright Armenia” parliamentary faction, which envisaged criminalising obstruction of the professional activities of an advocate during the exercise of his or her powers, as well as offending or defaming the advocate in relation to the exercise of his or her powers.

27/04/2020
Today, Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan introduced newly appointed Secretary General of the Ministry Suren Galstyan to the staff. The Minister congratulated Suren Galstyan on his appointment and wished him success in the new job.