Background
Harutyunyan was born in 1964 in Yerevan.
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Armen Harutyunyan
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Yerevan State University.
Career
He took office in February 2011. In 2015, he was elected Judge at the European Court of Human Rights and is a judge since 17 December 2015. He holds law degrees from Yerevan State University, the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and the Academy of Public Administration of the Russian Federation.
In 1989-2002 he lectured in law at Yerevan State University.
From 1997 he was legal advisor at the Constitutional Court, and in the constitutional reform of 2005 he was a representative of former President Robert Kocharian. In 2002-2006 he was rector of the Public Administration Academy.
On 17 February 2006, Harutyunyan was elected for a six-year term as the Human Rights Defender (ombudsman) of Armenia, with more than 3/5 of the votes of deputies in the National Assembly. He was the first elected holder of the post in accordance with 83.1 article of Constitution, succeeding Larisa Alaverdyan who had been appointed to the office by presidential decree in 2004.
In an extensive report in April 2008, Harutyunyan cast doubt on the credibility of the official (government) theory on the use of lethal force against thousands of supporters of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian who barricaded themselves outside the Yerevan mayor’s office hours after the break-up of their 10-day sit-in in the city’s Liberty Square on March 1.
He was succeeded as ombudsman by Karen Andreasyan, who was elected by the National Assembly in March 2011.
Membership
On July 7, 2008, Harutyunyan asked the National Security Service (National Service Scheme) to assign armed bodyguards to him and members of his family.
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