The draft law from March has been substantially weakened, removing key judicial appeal mechanisms and reducing accountability to individual disciplinary measures, resulting in g a law that authorities can ignore with near impunity.

Pressure on freedoms of expression and assembly continues to grow.

Displaced Artsakh resident Arthur Osipyan was detained and prosecuted following a heated exchange with the PM. He is currently on hunger strike, the civil society's prison monitoring group has been unable to visit him.