by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 26, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
“This form of extrajudicial “justice”, which could beat and thrash unprotected people inside prisons, and then explanation that they are fighting against the criminal subculture, is unacceptable,” said Zhanna Aleksanyan, President of The Journalists for...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 26, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
“This is another case when they try to cover up the torture case by hiding it under a wrong application of the law,” said lawyer Ara Gharagyozyan during a press conference, referring to the Nubarashen penitentiary where Armen Aghajanyan was tortured two...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 25, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
Yesterday, the head of the Journalists for Human Rights NGO, human rights activist Zhanna Aleksanyan, alerted on her Facebook page that masked men had broken into the cell of one of the convicts in the Nubarashen penitentiary and are “killing” him....
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 17, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
The police departments of Armenia are triangles, where a person disappears from the sight of his/her relatives. We will not say anything new, noting that the person may be beaten, not allowed to connect with the outside world, undisclosed cases may be attributed to...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jun 10, 2020 | Closed Institutions
Artak Ayvazyan, a 43-year-old detainee, has not been able to see his disabled child for about 15 months. The court, presided over by Judge Suren Baghdasaryan, has set a bail of 1.5 million drams (a little over $3,000) for the change of the measure of restraint of the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jun 6, 2020 | Closed Institutions
On June 29, 2019, when the RA Law on Amendments and Addenda to the Penitentiary Code of the Republic of Armenia entered into force, 43 life sentenced prisoners submitted a petition to the Distribution Commission with a request to change their punishment regime. Based...
