by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 26, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
“This is another case when they try to cover up the torture case by hiding it under a wrong application of the law,” said lawyer Ara Gharagyozyan during a press conference, referring to the Nubarashen penitentiary where Armen Aghajanyan was tortured two...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 25, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
Yesterday, the head of the Journalists for Human Rights NGO, human rights activist Zhanna Aleksanyan, alerted on her Facebook page that masked men had broken into the cell of one of the convicts in the Nubarashen penitentiary and are “killing” him....
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 20, 2020 | Army, News
Today is the third anniversary of the death of the hero of the Four-Day War, Captain Andranik Mkrtchyan․ On August 20, 2017, Mkrtchyan’s body was found in one of the military units in Meghri. “We went to the cemetery and came back. All we have left from...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 17, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
The police departments of Armenia are triangles, where a person disappears from the sight of his/her relatives. We will not say anything new, noting that the person may be beaten, not allowed to connect with the outside world, undisclosed cases may be attributed to...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 12, 2020 | Army, News
Yesterday, on August 11, Arthur Mkrtchyan, a life prisoner who was serving his sentence in Nubarashen Penitentiary for 24 years, went on an indefinite hunger strike. He was compelled to take this extreme step. His protest is against the arbitrariness of the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 10, 2020 | News
Former Armenian Police Chief Vladimir Gasparian on Saturday obstructed the work of an RFE/RL Armenian Service (Azatutyun) crew working on a report about government plans to dismantle some private houses illegally constructed near Lake Sevan. Gasparian, who served as...