by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 4, 2021 | Editor's Choice, Freedom of Speech
Freedom House international organization made an announcement about the criminal investigation against Yezidi human rights activist Sashik Sultanyan. Find the announcement bellow. The chairman of a group advocating for ethnic Yezidis in Armenia faces criminal charges...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 26, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
Samvel Alaverdyan, a 38-year-old resident of the Malatia-Sebastia community of Yerevan, was killed during a shootout with Azerbaijani forces in Yeraskh on July 14. The incident received international feedback. During a meeting with the acting Prime Minister Nikol...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 26, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
18-year-old Edgar Aghababyan was the only guardian of his disabled mother. He himself had health problems but, ignoring all the facts, the Ministry of Defense drafted Edgar into the army in January 2020. Edgar Aghababyan died on the third day of the war, on September...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 19, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
Levon Stepanyan, who died in a rocket strike on September 30, would have turned 20 on July 3. “I was kissing him then, now I am kissing his tombstone,” says Heghine Asatryan, the mother of the killed soldier. Levon, the only child of his parents, was a...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 19, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News, Photos
Yurik Sargsyan, 36, was killed by a sniper on November 6 in the town of Shushi. He was married and had two daughters, aged 8 and 11. The girls already know what happened to their father, but they do not talk about it. “When he heard about the war, he volunteered...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 7, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
The body of Vitalik Ionanov, 30, an Assyrian, was being looked for for eight months. Only a DNA test revealed her remains and handed them over to her mother on May 19, 2021. Vitalik did not serve in the army because he had kidney problems, but, after learning about...