by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 23, 2024 | Editor's Choice
On September 19, 2023, as a result of the one-day war unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh, 120,000 Artsakh residents were forcibly displaced. Only about two dozen Armenians remained in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the APA agency, on October 20, one of the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 23, 2024 | Editor's Choice
“The last time I saw my husband was the morning of September 19. He noticed that his phone was not in his pocket. He went out: we don’t know if he went to find his phone or to bring the cattle, but he left and didn’t come back,” Galya Babayan, 66, from Artsakh,...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 13, 2024 | Editor's Choice, Torture
Matad Babayan, who is in Azerbaijani captivity, called his family from Baku on October 30. “He calls once a week or once a fortnight. There are times when we wait longer for him to call,” Babayan’s grandson, Alen, told Forrights.am. According to family members, Madat...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 13, 2024 | Editor's Choice
51-year-old Sargis Hayrapetyan was the deputy director of the Charles Aznavour Cultural Center in Stepanakert, and now works as a worker at the National Children’s Library in Yerevan. He was born and lived in Stepanakert, NK. A construction engineer by...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 13, 2024 | Army, Editor's Choice
“I opened Facebook and the first thing I saw was my son’s picture with the text “The soldier who died today in the Meghri military unit is Aghasi Serozh Dallakyan…”: this is how Gohar Hayrapetyan learned about the death of her soldier son. On...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 13, 2024 | Editor's Choice
“In peacetime, I was a craftsman; when there was a war, I was an artilleryman,” 45-year-old Artsakh resident Hakob Grigoryan briefly tells about his life. Grigoryan, a father of three, was wounded in the legs during the 2020 war, but returned to the front line shortly...