(Horizon Media / YEREVAN) — Armenia’s government continued to promote an ambitious reform agenda in 2025, but persistent concerns over judicial independence, police accountability, prolonged pre-trial detention and the use of criminal proceedings against government opponents are raising questions over how much of that reform has translated into meaningful institutional change. It noted criminal charges and arrests involving former officials, senior clergy and prominent opposition figures and cited reports by international and Armenian rights organizations of declining respect for freedom of expression and assembly, excessive reliance on pre-trial detention, inadequate investigations of police abuse and diminishing judicial independence.