by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 9, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
When the war started, 20-year-old Vahagn Hovakimyan was serving in the army for one year and three months. During that time, he went home once, last spring. On September 17, his parents saw him in the Mataghis military unit. Visits were banned due to the COVID-19...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 9, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
“My Max called me on the night of the war, made me wake everyone up to talk to the whole family. His voice was sound, loud, he excitedly was telling us that he was cleaning and preparing his weapon. Everyone was surprised by this urgency. I understood that if my...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 4, 2021 | Editor's Choice, Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights Defenders at Risk
In the response to the urgent written question sent to the European Commission by the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Loucas Fourlas (Cyprus, EPP), the High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell states on behalf of the European Commission that the latter...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 2, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
“I talked to him on the 6th of the month, after 10:30. He said, ‘I am in Hadrut, I can’t talk long’. Then we learned that my child had been taken to the village of Khndrstan in Aghdam, then taken to the outskirts of Shushi, to the cemetery street....
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...