by Journalists for Human Rights | Dec 15, 2022 | Social Rights, Torture
Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the midfielder of Inter Milan, former player and captain of the Armenian national football squad, and UNICEF Armenia Ambassador, went on social media and drew the attention of the international community to Azerbaijan’s blocking of the Lachin...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 12, 2022 | Closed Institutions, Torture
Hayk Vardanyan has been in detention for 6 years. For 5 of these 6 years, he was kept in the Hospital of Convicts penitentiary. During brief respites of health, he was taken back to his deployment site. At the moment, Hayk Vardanyan is in the Armavir penitentiary. He...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 16, 2021 | Torture
On August 30, 2018, a horrible murder took place in one of the houses on Araratyan Street of Yerevan. The victim was 28-year-old Marine Danielyan, who was renting the house. Her body was found by police with 65 stab wounds. On the same day, Marine Danielyan’s...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 11, 2021 | Torture
Karen Hovhannisyan, a former employee of the Panther Security Service, has been in custody for about three years. He is accused of brutal killing of 28-year-old Marine Danielyan on August 30, 2018, in one of the houses on Araratyan Street in Yerevan. Karen...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 22, 2021 | Torture
On March 1, an extraordinary case of violence took place in the Tumanyan department of the Lori Regional Police Department. The head of the department, police colonel Artak Gyurjanyan, beat the detained citizen, Hrayr Lukyanchikov, a resident of Alaverdi. It was...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 4, 2020 | Army, News, Torture
The Office of the Human Rights Defender of Artsakh is clarifying the identity of the civilian Armenian person who was beheaded by the Azerbaijani soldiers in the village of Togh. “One of the villagers of Togh told an international reporter that they are aware of the...
