by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 29, 2025 | Editor's Choice
“Sznek was already in the hands of the enemy. We were fleeing through the forests to the village of Khachmach. On the way, I thought, no matter what, at least let’s not be captured,” recalls 55-year-old Hranush. Hranush Aghabekyan now lives in Yerevan with her two...
by Narek Kirakosyan | Jan 29, 2025 | Editor's Choice
“I’m living with those pictures now,” Alina Hovsepyan, who was forcibly displaced from Artsakh, tells Forrights.am as she flips through the photos on her phone and shows her house in Stepanakert, which have now become the only factual evidence of her memories. “I’ve...
by Զառա Մայիլյան | Jan 29, 2025 | Editor's Choice
Lyudmila Kostanyan is from the village of Hatsik, Armavir region of the Republic of Armenia. The 69-year-old woman had 4 children: three sons and a daugher, but now she has only a boy. In 2022, during the 44-Day War, her son, 37-year-old Aristakes, a contract soldier...
by Narek Kirakosyan | Jan 29, 2025 | Editor's Choice
Spartak Stepanyan is trying to move by in some way attaching his foot to the main prosthesis. For seven months now, the 53-year-old man has been trying to hold his foot and main prosthesis together with a sock, pulling it up as much as possible. He also uses a cane to...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 23, 2024 | Editor's Choice
Reserve officer Garnik Mnatsakanyan, 50, was born in the village of Shosh, Askeran region of NK. He graduated from the local school in the early stages of the Artsakh movement and immediately joined the struggle for survival. In the 1990s, as part of the Shosh village...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 23, 2024 | Editor's Choice
On November 30, Artsakh organizations convened a rally against the sharp reduction of the financial assistance program for the people of Artsakh. Let us recall that from April 2025, only minors, the disabled and people of retirement age will receive this assistance,...