by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 8, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
The hunger strike of life convicts in the Sevan penitentiary was stopped today. First, 3 lifers stopped the hunger strike, then everyone else. The Penitentiary Service explains that the reason is the explanatory work carried out with the hunger strikers. However, it...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 28, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
Yesterday, November 27, a group hunger strike started in the Sevan penitentiary. Forrights.am received this information from the family mmembers of the convicts. The reason for the hunger strike became known to us today: The institution of gradual change of detention...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 20, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
Aram Arakelyan, a convict of the Armavir penitentiary institution, in addition to the punishment prescribed by the verdict, also bears the complete indifference of the officials. They don’t answer letters, they don’t listen to complaints, don’t...
by Հասմիկ Համբարձումյան | Aug 9, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
The non-governmental organization Journalists for Human Rights receives numerous alerts about the torture of prisoners in the penitentiary institutions of Armenia. They are related to torturing, humiliating people, especially people with health problems, not providing...
by Journalists for Human Rights | May 12, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
The Penitentiary Service responded to our publication of May 6 “Deputies of the head of the Nubarashen penitentiary break the furniture and floors of the cells under the pretenses of search”. In the article, Forrights.am presented how the employees of the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | May 6, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
In accordance with the tradition surviving from the Soviet times, the searches in Armenian prisons, in addition to finding prohibited things, objects, materials, aim to frighten the convicts. They are used as a prophylactic action and are accompanied by destruction....