by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 8, 2020 | News, Torture
The acting police chief of Sisian has beaten a 60-year-old citizen for not taking over the theft. The incident took place on April 6. The citizen was detained at three o’clock AM. “They took me for theft, the Sisian police chief beat me. I was in that...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 6, 2020 | News, Torture
On March 30, police released a heartbreaking video showing 28-year-old Tigran Karapetyan pouring a torrent of curses on Malatya police officers, and they bravely tried to bring the drunken young man to justice. They rudgingly brought him to the police station and...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jan 30, 2020 | News, Torture
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Azerbaijan guilty of brutally torturing an Armenian man who died in Azerbaijani captivity more than nine years ago. Manvel Saribekian, a 20-year-old resident of an Armenian village very close to the Azerbaijani...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Nov 23, 2019 | Editor's Choice, Torture
Yesterday, a video was posted on NewsMedia’s YouTube page showing police officers trying to extort testimony from a citizen, torturing him with a respirator and a baton. Ashot Aharonyan, head of the Police’s Public Relations and Information Department,...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 12, 2019 | Editor's Choice, Torture
A forensic examination of the body of 36-year-old Edgar Chatinyan, who was taken to Nor Nork police on April 7 and died at the Armenia Medical Center on April 8, according to independent criminal expert Ruben Martirosyan, reveals that the young man was a victim of...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Oct 13, 2018 | Torture
Harutyun Petrosyan, a resident of Gyumri, a former police officer and a detainee at Vardashen penitentiary, was brutally beaten by Karen Gevorgyan and Arthur Hakobyan, officers of the Kumayri Police Department of the Gyumri Police. Forrights.am was informed about the...