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....
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 18, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
Aram Arakelyan, sentenced to life, spent 30 of his 50 years in prisons: in Nubarashen, Goris, Kosh, Armavir, Sevan Aram Arakelyan became half a man in the prisons. He lost his health. A year ago, he had an acute ischemic stroke of brain, underwent brain surgeries....
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 21, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
Yesterday, on March 20, the convicts of the Armavir penitentiary started a hunger strike for indefinite period. Sources close to the detention center inform Forrights.am about it. The hunger strikers demand the management of the penitentiary institution to improve the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 16, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
According to the data of the Ministry of Justice, in the years 2019-2021, the death rate in the penitentiary institutions of Armenia has decreased. However, last year, an increase in the number of deaths in the correctional facilities was recorded. The NGO Journalists...
