On March 3, 2010, Executive Director of Transparency International Anti-corruption Center (TIAC) Varuzhan Hoktanyan and TIAC's Environmental Policy Expert Sona Ayvazyan addressed a discussion of Civil Society Report on "Armenia's European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) Implementation in 2009" by presenting TIAC expert assessments on corruption and environment. The event was organized by "Partnership for Open Society" (POS) Initiative with the support of the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation - Armenia (OSIAFA).


At the request of the Ministry of Finance, Transparency International Anti-corruption Center submitted 20-point Remarks and Suggestions on the Republic of Armenia Draft "Law on Procurement" to the consideration of the Government of Armenia. The Draft "Law on Procurement" was developed by the Government of Armenia, based on the Draft Procurement System Reform Strategy approved on 23.04.09, Procurement System Assessment Report approved by the EU experts and by the Country Procurement Assessment Report, developed by the World Bank.


Paris-Geneva-Yerevan - The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), along with the Civil Society Institute, Helsinki Citizen's Assembly Vanadzor Office, the Helsinki Committee of Armenia, the Collaboration for Democracy Centre, Transparency International Anti-Corruption Centre, as well as the Foundation Against Violation of Law, welcome the acquittal of human rights defender Arshaluys Hakobian.


On January 19, 2010 the editor-in-chief of "Haykakan Zhamanak" daily Nikol Pashinyan was sentenced to 7 years in prison, a downright illegal court ruling by the common jurisdiction court in Yerevan's Kentron and Nork-Marash administrative districts. The charge that Pashinyan organized riots was in no way proven in the course of the trial. Moreover, it is clear the court has singled out Pashinyan for excessive punishment. Of the seven other political prisoners, opposition representatives sentenced before Pashinyan on the same charges, six were given shorter terms and later released under the general amnesty.