“I was a 12-year-old child: the Turks entered our house and shot and killed my mother right in front of me”. The story of Aramis from Karin Tak
44-year-old Aramis Petrosyan is from Karin Tak village of Shushi region of Artsakh. He keeps old photos of the village in his phone, the village that Azerbaijan has leveled to the ground today. Petrosyan is a sheet metal worker: he has been engaged in the construction...
“I wish to go, get there, and say: Karabakh does not exist; what did you give your life for?”
31-year-old Samvel Tovmasyan was the father of three young children. He was born and raised in Taghavard-Kaler village of Martuni region of NK, which was besieged after the 44-Day War. He died on September 20, 2023, 10 minutes before the ceasefire announcement. His...
“Something hit me and I saw that I was covered in blood.” An enemy sniper shot a woman in Stepanakert
A ceasefire was announced in Artsakh on September 21, two days after the Azerbaijani military operations. The children and women sheltered in the basements came out, trying to return to everyday life. Nurse Lusine was one of them. She had decided to go to work that...
Azerbaijanis shot Armen in the center of the village. What does the brother tell
Armen from Getavan was shot dead in the center of the village while preventing the desecration of the monument commemorating those who died for the motherland. The Azerbaijanis entered Getavan on September 19, 2023, and proceeded to demolish the monument. 50-year-old...
“My husband was killed on October 3, and my brother’s two sons were killed on October 7 and 27. October is a black month for us.”
45-year-old Lusine Harutyunyan was born in Noragyugh community of Askeran region, NK. In 2001, she married Garik from Stepanakert, had 3 daughters. Until the 44-Day War, her husband was a contract soldier in one of the military units of Stepanakert. "Before the 44-Day...
“He never got to spend much time with his son: he was always in positions.” 24-year-old widow
The 23-year-old Taguhi became a widow in 2023 as a result of the September One-Day War, and then lost her birthplace, home and entire property. Now, for the sake of her one-year-old son, she is trying to find a way out of the uncertainty. The wife of the deceased...
The support provided to the people of Artsakh is not transparent: What does the Civil Contract faction hide?
At today's session of the National Assembly, the issue of creating an investigative committee of the National Assembly to study the conditions of organizing the life of the people of Nagorno Karabakh forcibly displaced and transferred to the Republic of Armenia was...
The legal basis is there; we just need to take steps to realize our rights
A year has passed since the deportation and depopulation of Artsakh, but the issue of Artsakh is not closed. Artsakh analyst Davit Karabekyan spoke with us about the recognition of Artsakh's right to self-determination and the return of Artsakh residents to their...
“We entered the forest barefoot; they were shooting.” What the residents of Kichan village went through a year ago
"We were in a bad situation, terrible; they attacked us and we ran away from home to the forests," 65-year-old Rima Ghalayan remembers this when talking about what happened in Artsakh a year ago. She is from Kichan village of Martakert region. The women, children and...
“The authorities of the Republic of Armenia should not hinder the activities of Artsakh state bodies:” Artak Beglaryan
If we look at the position of Azerbaijan, the pressures of the international community and the position and actions of the RA authorities, it is not realistic for the people of Artsakh to return to their homes at this time. Former Minister of State of Artsakh Artak...
Life under shells was easier than this year of peace. the nurse is homeless and unemployed
Ofik Antonyan would never have imagined that, at the age of 60, she would be on the streets, relying on goodwill of her friends and relatives. Born in Kapan, she lived in Artsakh for 30 years and served in the Defense Army. Jebrail's regiment, where Ofik served, was...
The truck of the father of five minor children was sent to the battlefield by the state and the state does not provide any compensation
Samvel Kotanjyan's barn in Sizavet is being emptied little by little. The father of a large family has to sell a cow and a calf every month to pay off the bank loans. Samvel, 45, who lives in the Sizavet community of the Shirak region, borrowed $8,000 from a bank and...
“Swearing is a consequence of an extremely difficult internal political situation. the atmosphere must be changed instead of fighting against the consequences”
On the last day of termination of its powers, on July 30, the National Assembly of the 7th convocation passed the bill criminalizing swearing. According to the bill, a new article is added to the RA Criminal Code - 137.1 ("Serious insult"), that is, insulting a person...
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Captivity: After being tortured in Baku, soldiers are tortured also in Yerevan
The Journalists for Human Rights NGO summarizes the violations of the rights of 17 servicemen who were captured during the battles of September 13 and returned to Yerevan from Baku on October 4.
The last day in Stepanakert: “We transported 182 corpses with four employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations; there were no people left”
In an interview with Forrights.am, Arman Petrosyan, an employee of the Special Purpose Department of the Artsakh NSS, presented details of the Azerbaijani attack on September 19. He is a participant in military operations, as well as 44-Day and Four-Day wars. "On...
It is an honor for me to go to the army, but they present taking to military trainings as a punishment
A bizarre incident happened at the military commissariat of Nor Nork. They issued a summons to participate in the 25-day training camp to a person who was not considered a citizen of the Republic of Armenia at that time. The person who received the summons, Eduard...
Yervand Aghabalyan, forcibly displaced from Artsakh, was detained: The family was deprived of its only breadearner
Yervand Aghabalyan, forcibly displaced from Artsakh at the end of September, was detained for one month n June 17, 2023. His lawyer Roman Yeritsyan informed Forrights.am that there is no basis for arrest. "It's just a political order. Yervand Aghabalyan is accused of...
“They came in the morning, took us out in our nightgowns, searched the house, took Narek away,” Narek Tevosyan’s wife from Artsakh says
A part of the recording of a telephone conversation between two Artsakh residents in the Artsakh dialect has appeared on the Internet. The RA Investigative Committee and the Public TV Company operating with the funds of the state budget present how men from Artsakh...
Artak Beglaryan calls on UN to take concrete actions to protect security, rights of Artsakh people
The blockade of Artsakh and the cutting of gas supply is a very clear manifestation of the Azerbaijani genocidal policy, which has its assessment by the international law, Advisor to the State Minister of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan told reporters while he was doing a...
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“Journalists for Human Rights” NGO was founded in 2008, after the presidential elections, when 10 RA citizens were killed and many participants of peaceful rallies were subjected to violence as a result of the post-election developments, the violent actions of the authorities.
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A charity exhibition of life convicts in Sevan Penitentiary
Yesterday, an exhibition of the works of three life convicts, Aram Arakelyan, Mikayel Martirosyan and Igor Ohanyan, was organized in the Sevan Penitentiary, in which the clay dishes and decorative items presented were donated to the "Hay Manuk" [Armenian Kid] program...
“I lived in prison for 31 years: what more do they want from me?” the Penal Code does not work for life-sentenced prisoners
The provisions of the new penal code of RA regarding the transfer of convicts to lower security zones do not work. Convicts have repeatedly expressed their protest in this regard, human rights defenders and mass media have addressed the topic, but the cart does not...
“I was a 12-year-old child: the Turks entered our house and shot and killed my mother right in front of me”. The story of Aramis from Karin Tak
44-year-old Aramis Petrosyan is from Karin Tak village of Shushi region of Artsakh. He keeps old photos of the village in his phone, the village that Azerbaijan has leveled to the ground today. Petrosyan is a sheet metal worker: he has been engaged in the construction...
“I wish to go, get there, and say: Karabakh does not exist; what did you give your life for?”
31-year-old Samvel Tovmasyan was the father of three young children. He was born and raised in Taghavard-Kaler village of Martuni region of NK, which was besieged after the 44-Day War. He died on September 20, 2023, 10 minutes before the ceasefire announcement. His...
International human rights defenders scolded the Armenian government. Why didn’t any Armenians stay in Artsakh?
Freedom House, together with the International Partnership for Human Rights, the Democracy Development Fund, the Vanadzor Office of the Helsinki Civil Assembly, the Foundation for the Development and Protection of Rights, the NGO Protection of Rights without Borders,...
“Condemnation of the Illegal Actions of the Police”
The civil society and human rights activists of Armenia condemn the actions of the police on June 12, 2024. During the demonstration organized by the “Tavush for the Homeland” movement at the Baghramyan-Demirchyan streets intersection on June 12, the RA Police used...
“They kicked me and beat me with hands, with machine guns:” The days of Lernik’s captivity
Armed Azerbaijanis captured Lernik Aghajanyan from Artsakh and severely beat him. Lernik is 43 years old man, from Kichan village, Martakert region of NK. He was working as a caretaker at a livestock farm located a few kilometers away from Kichan. He came home during...
“Tear gas and torture: Allegations and official denials about the violence of an Artsakh citizen”
On August 8, a discussion was held at the Media Center on the subject "Tear gas and torture. Allegations and official denials about the violence of an Artsakh citizen." The speakers were Roman Yeritsyan, lawyer; Edgar Martirosyan, head of the Human Rights Defender's...
The behavior of the West towards Aliyev raises suspicions. Time of sanctions
Western mediation on the settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and the Artsakh problem is intensifying, but the lack of practical steps, the sign of artificial equality towards Yerevan and Baku, the responsibility to make a deal with the authoritarian...
It was a pity the doctor
The yard of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Avan-Nor Nork administrative districts of Yerevan was crowded today. The court was examining the issue of detaining Armen Charchyan, a well-known doctor, director of Izmirlian Medical Center, the 20th member on the...
“If he stayed for a couple of days, he would become a Turk.” The actor from Stepanakert remained all alone for 13 days, was beaten by Azerbaijanis
60-year-old Kamo Arakelyan from Stepanakert, NK was one of the actors of the Drama Theater named after V. Papazyan. Now he is bedridden, one of his kidneys does not work after many operations, tubes are hanging from his body, his legs are swollen, he cannot walk. "I...
“As refugees, how can we leave the country? emigrate or wait for the government?”
"Friends, as refugees, how can we leave the country? Which country accepts us? Who knows for sure? Please give us some details." There are sentiments of leaving Armenia among groups of forcibly displaced Artsakh citizens on social networks and people with such...
“I was a 12-year-old child: the Turks entered our house and shot and killed my mother right in front of me”. The story of Aramis from Karin Tak
44-year-old Aramis Petrosyan is from Karin Tak village of Shushi region of Artsakh. He keeps old photos of the village in his phone, the village that Azerbaijan has leveled to the ground today. Petrosyan is a sheet metal worker: he has been engaged in the construction...
“I wish to go, get there, and say: Karabakh does not exist; what did you give your life for?”
31-year-old Samvel Tovmasyan was the father of three young children. He was born and raised in Taghavard-Kaler village of Martuni region of NK, which was besieged after the 44-Day War. He died on September 20, 2023, 10 minutes before the ceasefire announcement. His...
“Something hit me and I saw that I was covered in blood.” An enemy sniper shot a woman in Stepanakert
A ceasefire was announced in Artsakh on September 21, two days after the Azerbaijani military operations. The children and women sheltered in the basements came out, trying to return to everyday life. Nurse Lusine was one of them. She had decided to go to work that...
Azerbaijanis shot Armen in the center of the village. What does the brother tell
Armen from Getavan was shot dead in the center of the village while preventing the desecration of the monument commemorating those who died for the motherland. The Azerbaijanis entered Getavan on September 19, 2023, and proceeded to demolish the monument. 50-year-old...
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