by Journalists for Human Rights | May 18, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
Arman and Vagharshak Khostikyan, who have been on hunger strike for 24 days, stopped their hunger strike five days ago when they received information that the case they had filed had been sent to the Avan Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan. The long-awaited...
by Journalists for Human Rights | May 5, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
Citizens of Armenia who go through various criminal cases often do not have means to pay the bail set by the court and remain in custody. This is what happened to Tigran Karapetyan, a 28-year-old resident of Yerevan. He went shopping on the night of March 30 when he...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 21, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
A few days ago, in the second reading, the parliament fully adopted the legislative proposal to amend the Criminal Procedure Code submitted by the Government, which provides an opportunity to establish a practice to reduce detention as a precautionary measure as much...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 12, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
On April 2, the Ministry of Justice announced that five employees of the Vardashen Penitentiary’s Guarding Department have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and 28 employees have been isolated. The Public Relations Department of the Ministry reassured that “the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 1, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
Doctor of Political Science, publicist Arkady Vardanyan is one of the political prisoners of Serzh Sargsyan’s regime. He was convicted in 2013 on absurd charges of poisoning his friend’s father, and was released in November 2018 through amnesty. For 4...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 20, 2020 | Closed Institutions
Former YVU (Yerkrapah Volunteer Union) President Manvel Grigoryan’s health condition does not inspire optimism. His lawyer Arsen Mkrtchyan’s statement of last week that the fact that Grigoryan is still alive is very good news, quite credibly describes his...
