by Journalists for Human Rights | May 20, 2022 | Closed Institutions
On April 13, the Administrative Court, chaired by Karen Zarikyan, issued a precedent that could change the fate of lifers: the decisions of the Prosecutor’s Office to suspend the life sentence twice were considered illegal. When the verdict enters into force,...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 24, 2022 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
On March 8, 1995, a convict of Nubarashen penitentiary Samvel Shahgeldyan, born in 1959, had his veins cut, and, on March 7, he swallowed a few needles. Today, he contacted us from the prison and told that he had swallowed a razor blade. The demand is one: to force...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 6, 2021 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice, News
Prosecutors of the Department for the Supervision of the Lawfulness of Punishment and Enforcement behave harshly towards the convicts who have spent more than 20 years in detention. One after the other, the decisions of the Ministry of Justice’s placement...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 6, 2021 | Closed Institutions
According to the Penitentiary Service, sampling was carried out in all penitentiaries to detect COVID-19 virus. Persons with positive diagnoses kept in Goris, Armavir and Convicts’ Hospital penitentiaries were transferred to the pre-separated department of the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Oct 28, 2021 | Closed Institutions
Citizen Edik Martirosyan, who was forcibly put in a car by the police a month ago and taken to Nubarashen Mental Health Center, is in freedom now. The management of the psychiatric hospital discharged him today. Edik Martirosyan himself informed us about it. He has...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Oct 11, 2021 | Closed Institutions
The convicts are protesting against the RA General Prosecutor’s Office, which annulled the decisions made by the relevant commission of the Ministry of Justice to change their detention regime, and returned the convicts to their cells. People who had spent more...
