The Armenian Center for Political Rights has released the English translation of the first part of its report «Injustice in Armenia: Mass political persecutions of 2025: Part A (May–September)». This report thoroughly analyzes four main episodes of political persecution that occurred between May and September 2025:

1․ The campaign against businessman and philantropist Samvel Karapetyan and his arrest. 2․ The arrests of members of the «Holy Struggle» movement. 3․ The arrest of Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan 4․ The arrests of ARF members.

The report also notes a full-scale campaign launched by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan against the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), which began in May 2025. Since the events covered in this report, there have been many extralegal interventions in the AAC’s internal affairs and detentions of high-ranking clergy, including Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan, Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan, as well as politicians, bloggers, human rights defenders.

The ACPR plans to address these later developments in Part B of the 2025 report. Downloaded the full translated text of Part A of the report.