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Artak Beglaryan calls on UN to take concrete actions to protect security, rights of Artsakh people

by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 15, 2022 | Editor's Choice, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, News, Photos

The blockade of Artsakh and the cutting of gas supply is a very clear manifestation of the Azerbaijani genocidal policy, which has its assessment by the international law, Advisor to the State Minister of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan told reporters while he was doing a...

“I don’t know what will happen to my son. 20 days after the captivity, they were taken to the army”

by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 23, 2022 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice

The servicemen who returned from captivity remained alone with their problems against the state. The Ministry of Defense headed by Suren Papikyan is taking them to the army, not taking into account a number of psychological problems that the servicemen acquired in...

“The Azerbaijanis on a high place and jumped on the backs of the captives.” The mother raises the alarm about her son’s psychological problems

by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 21, 2022 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice

“He hears a tiny-loud noise and says, ‘Mom, was it a shot?'” This is how the mother describes the mental state of her son, who returned from captivity, in one sentence. The 19-year-old soldier, staying in Azerbaijan for more than 20 days, was...

Conscripting the prisoners of war into the army is equivalent to a new captivity

by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 18, 2022 | Army, Editor's Choice

After the military operations of September 13-14, the servicemen that were captured and later extradited to Armenia by the Republic of Azerbaijan are being drafted into the army again. They still haven’t gone through a rehabilitation period, haven’t...

“They told in the military police: ‘You should blow yourselves up, you shouldn’t be taken prisoner’. They give away the positions, and the soldiers as well,” a soldier who has returned from captivity

by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 15, 2022 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice, News

One of the captured in September Armenian soldiers, who has already returned to his country, told Forrights.am details about the days of captivity on condition of anonymity: “Those were cruel days,” said our interlocutor, recalling the 20 days he spent in...

“The first three days were brutal in the military police of Azerbaijan; he says it was hell”

by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 1, 2022 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice

The servicemen who returned from captivity after the September battles may return to service. Their family members alert about the health problems of their sons, which are not only physical but also psychological. The family members who alerted the NGO...