by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 26, 2022 | Closed Institutions
Hayk Vardanyan, a prisoner of the “Armavir” penitentiary, has been on hunger strike for 21 days. He only demands that he be transferred to a civil hospital and finally treated. In the medical history of Hyak Vardanyan, it is mentioned that he has urethral...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 12, 2022 | Closed Institutions, Torture
Hayk Vardanyan has been in detention for 6 years. For 5 of these 6 years, he was kept in the Hospital of Convicts penitentiary. During brief respites of health, he was taken back to his deployment site. At the moment, Hayk Vardanyan is in the Armavir penitentiary. He...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 21, 2022 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice, Photos
These are the words of Yuri Sargsyan, who has been sentenced to life since 1994. He says that a lot has changed in his life during these 28 years. Yuri divided those years into phases: before he was in a prison made by his brain; now this is a different prison for...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 15, 2022 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
After a long delay, the Penitentiary Medicine Center finally responded to lifer Aram Arakelyan. The interdepartmental medical commission recognized his illness – ischemic stroke of the brain – as compatible with detention. “According to the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jun 30, 2022 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
In the case of 45-year-old Artur Mkrtchyan, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 5 co-servicemen almost 25 years ago, there are still many dark points, questions, the answers to which neither the prosecutor nor the investigators gave. Although he...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jun 30, 2022 | Closed Institutions
The health condition of lifer Aram Arakelyan has sharply deteriorated. A few days ago, he fainted in Armavir penitentiary institution. However, according to Aram Arakelyan’s mother, Rosa Arakelyan, her son was not given ambulance. He remained in the penitentiary...