Conversations on Groong - September 4, 2025In this episode of Conversations on Groong, we speak with international human rights lawyer Robert Amsterdam about the arrest and pre-trial detention of Armenian businessman and Church benefactor Samvel Karapetyan. We explore how Armenia’s courts are being used in a campaign of lawfare targeting political opponents and the Armenian Apostolic Church, following growing tensions between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government and religious leaders. Amsterdam discusses the legal inconsistencies, the weaponization of pre-trial detention, and how these actions violate international norms. We also examine the broader consequences for Armenia’s legal system, religious freedom, and international reputation.Topic: <ul><li>Arrest of Samvel Karapetyan</li><li>Pre-trial detention practices</li><li>Lawfare and double standards</li><li>Armenia’s global consequences</li></ul>Guest: Robert AmsterdamHosts: <ul><li>Hovik Manucharyan</li><li>Asbed Bedrossian</li></ul>Episode 468 | Recorded: September 4, 2025 SHOW NOTES: <a href='https://podcasts.groong.org/468'>https://podcasts.groong.org/468</a>VIDEO: <a href='https://youtu.be/0aa4tvYVL7M'>https://youtu.be/0aa4tvYVL7M</a>#Lawfare #Armenia #ReligiousFreedom #PoliticalPrisoners #SamvelKarapetyan Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: <a href='https://linktr.ee/groong'>linktr.ee/groong</a>

Conversations on Groong - September 4, 2025 In this episode of Conversations on Groong, we speak with international human rights lawyer Robert Amsterdam about the arrest and pre-trial detention of Armenian businessman and Church benefactor Samvel Karapetyan. We explore how Armenia’s courts are being used in a campaign of lawfare targeting political opponents and the Armenian Apostolic Church, following growing tensions between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government and religious leaders. Amsterdam discusses the legal inconsistencies, the weaponization of pre-trial detention, and how these actions violate international norms. We also examine the broader consequences for Armenia’s legal system, religious freedom, and international reputation. Topic: Arrest of Samvel KarapetyanPre-trial detention practicesLawfare and double standardsArmenia’s global consequencesGuest: Robert Amsterdam Hosts: Hovik ManucharyanAsbed BedrossianEpisode 468 | Recorded: September 4, 2025 SHOW NOTES: https://podcasts.groong.org/468 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/0aa4tvYVL7M #Lawfare #Armenia #ReligiousFreedom #PoliticalPrisoners #SamvelKarapetyan Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong

Conversations on Groong - September 4, 2025In this episode of Conversations on Groong, we speak with international human rights lawyer Robert Amsterdam about the arrest and pre-trial detention of Armenian businessman and Church benefactor Samvel Karapetyan. We explore how Armenia’s courts are being used in a campaign of lawfare targeting political opponents and the Armenian Apostolic Church, following growing tensions between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government and religious leaders. Amsterdam discusses the legal inconsistencies, the weaponization of pre-trial detention, and how these actions violate international norms. We also examine the broader consequences for Armenia’s legal system, religious freedom, and international reputation.Topic:&nbsp;<ul><li>Arrest of Samvel Karapetyan</li><li>Pre-trial detention practices</li><li>Lawfare and double standards</li><li>Armenia’s global consequences</li></ul>Guest: Robert AmsterdamHosts:&nbsp;<ul><li>Hovik Manucharyan</li><li>Asbed Bedrossian</li></ul>Episode 468 | Recorded: September 4, 2025 SHOW NOTES: <a href="https://podcasts.groong.org/468" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://podcasts.groong.org/468</a>VIDEO: <a href="https://youtu.be/0aa4tvYVL7M" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/0aa4tvYVL7M</a>#Lawfare #Armenia #ReligiousFreedom #PoliticalPrisoners #SamvelKarapetyan Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: <a href="https://linktr.ee/groong" rel="noopener noreferrer">linktr.ee/groong</a>

Robert Amsterdam - In Our Own Way: The Samvel Karapetyan Case | Ep 468, Sep 4, 2025

Weekly review of Armenian News from https://groong.org. Keeping up with news related to Armenia and Armenians can be challenging; the sheer volume of news in the past few years has increased greatly, and the rise of the “Fake News” phenomenon contributing to the erosion of trust in the news media. The diversity of languages used by the worldwide Armenian community also poses a challenge for Armenian news; there is a significant portion of news that originates in Armenian, sometimes in Russian, and does not get adequately translated into English, or Western Armenian, for those in the Diaspora who are not proficient in Eastern Armenian. Finally, with the COVID-19 pandemic and the political turbulence in countries where significant communities of the Armenian Diaspora reside, be it Syria, Lebanon, the United States, etc., many of our friends and colleagues indicate that they’re simply overloaded with information and lack the time and energy to separate the good from the bad. So we’re creating this weekly digest of news and analysis that we find relevant to share with our friends and the wider ANN/Groong audience. Our goal is to provide a brief overview of the main headlines of the past week, and then cover a smaller set of the more important developments, curated by ANN/Groong editors and contributors who spend an inordinate amount of time daily to process Armenian news. We hope that over time this podcast will help our listeners in becoming more astute consumers of Armenian news. We will strive to provide a rich set of notes with each installation, with links to the most relevant articles and information as a starting point for your further investigation.

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