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...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 18, 2018 | Closed Institutions, Interviews, Torture
For three months, Goris police officers have turned Vagharshak Avetisyan`s life into a real hell, beating and torturing him one after another. Vagharshak Avetisyan, 20, had nothing else left to do than confess the crime he did not commit before a video camera. 10...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 16, 2018 | Corruption, News, Torture
The police are working by means of extraction of testimonies Misha Mkhitaryan, an elderly resident of the Zolakar village in Gegharkunik region, announces that his grandson, the 18-years-old Hayk Mkhitaryan, is being pursued by the police, who have abducted and abused...
