Closed Institutions Archives

A charity exhibition of life convicts in Sevan Penitentiary

by Journalists for Human Rights | Oct 14, 2024 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice

Yesterday, an exhibition of the works of three life convicts, Aram Arakelyan, Mikayel Martirosyan and Igor Ohanyan, was organized in the Sevan Penitentiary, in which the clay dishes and decorative items presented were donated to the “Hay Manuk” [Armenian...

“I lived in prison for 31 years: what more do they want from me?” the Penal Code does not work for life-sentenced prisoners

by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 20, 2024 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice

The provisions of the new penal code of RA regarding the transfer of convicts to lower security zones do not work. Convicts have repeatedly expressed their protest in this regard, human rights defenders and mass media have addressed the topic, but the cart does not...

“If something happens to him, I will kill myself.” a Yezidi boy was beaten in Nubarashen prison

by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 8, 2024 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice

Yesterday, Zhanna Aleksanyan, head of the organization Journalists for the Protection of Human Rights, published on her Facebook page the crimes committed against Andrey Khalilian, a young man of Yezidi nationality, about which the penitentiary service preferred to...

Why did the lifers stop the hunger strike

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...

Collective hunger strike in Sevan prison: Why does the state of the lifers not change?

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...

“They push me to extreme measures for me to die, so that they can say there is no person, there is no problem.” Medicines are not provided to the prisoner for life

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...