by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 2, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
Investigations of the deaths of soldiers have almost been stopped in a state of war. The preliminary investigation body, the prosecutor’s office has ignored these cases. The murder of Andranik Mkrtchyan, a hero of the April war who died in August 2017 in the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 1, 2021 | Editor's Choice, News
The body of 19-year-old soldier Hovik Veranyan from Gagarin village of Gegharkunik region, was handed over to his family only 80 days after his death. Until the last moment, the family believed that the boy was alive, that he has ran during the car explosion and was...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 16, 2020 | Army, Editor's Choice, Freedom of Assembly
1098 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Armenia in the past one day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 150,218, the ministry of healthcare said today. 1242 more patients have recovered in one day. The total number of...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 15, 2020 | Army, Corruption, Editor's Choice, Interviews, News, Photos, Reports
12 Azerbaijani POWs were repatriated on December 14 on board a Russian aircraft from the Armenian side, while 44 Armenian POWs were transferred to Yerevan, the Commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno Karabakh Lt. General Rustam Muradov told...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 2, 2020 | Army, Editor's Choice, Freedom of Assembly, Projects, Reports, Social Rights
(Berlin) – Azerbaijani forces have inhumanely treated numerous ethnic Armenian military troops captured in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Human Rights Watch said today. They subjected these prisoners of war (POWs) to physical abuse and...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 18, 2020 | Army, Editor's Choice
Recently, Judge David Balayan made an unprecedented judgment․ The 58-year-old prisoner of conscience, who was detained in “Armavir” penitentiary for almost a year, was released on bail in order to go to the front. The defendant, who according to the...