“Until the end, we were waiting for help to arrive from Armenia.” Reserve officer
Reserve officer Garnik Mnatsakanyan, 50, was born in the village of Shosh, Askeran region of NK. He graduated from the local school in the early stages of the Artsakh movement and immediately joined the struggle for survival. In the 1990s, as part of the Shosh village...
The people of Artsakh were displaced as a community, and they must protect their rights as a community
On November 30, Artsakh organizations convened a rally against the sharp reduction of the financial assistance program for the people of Artsakh. Let us recall that from April 2025, only minors, the disabled and people of retirement age will receive this assistance,...
She left the bread being baked in the oven and went out: the sounds of machine gun fire had become very loud, the Turks were close
Nune Kocharyan was born, lived and worked in Stepanakert. She was the head of the service department of the Hovh. Tumanyan Children's Library. Her husband, Ashot Tsatryan, is a native of Shushi, a twice displaced person. During the Artsakh Movement, she moved and...
“The alternative will be to sleeping on the street.”:The government reduces the amount and scope of support provided to Artsakh people
Forcibly displaced Artsakh residents are concerned with the recent decision of the RA government, which makes changes to the programs for supporting their housing and utility payments. On November 21, the Armenian government decided that the amount provided from April...
“Artsakh in Syunik”: there are people who cry when they see this sign
Nver Mirzoyan is from the village of Khndzristan in Askeran region, NK. He and his family have founded a small business next to the Kapan [Armenia] school. They rented a small area, called it “Artsakh in Syunik,” and the women of the family have begun to spread the...
Why “ethnic cleansing” and “return”, and not “occupation” and “genocide”? The Artsakh issue is being deliberately diverted
After the occupation of Artsakh and the forced displacement of the indigenous population, the rights of the people of Artsakh and the legal standing of Artsakh are not only ignored, but are also deliberately directed in a fruitless direction. Against the background of...
“Enough is enough; I am no longer able to see a soldier die…”. Artsakh doctor working in Kapan
Artsakh surgeon Grigori Grigoryan has been working at the Kapan Medical Center for several months now. The 40-year-old doctor was born and raised in the village of Nerkin Horatagh in the Martakert region, NK, but has lived mostly outside Artsakh in his adult life....
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“I went to the field at 5 am, they gave me 6,000 drams [about $15] a day, but that’s over too.” The mother of six minors needs help
Marina Avetisyan from Artsakh lives with her six minor children in difficult social conditions. She wakes up at 5 am every morning to get into the car that goes to the fields. She is engaged in farming for a daily wage. She receives 6,000 drams for working until 8 pm....
“I spoke to my mother on September 28, before her death, and she had no health problems.” Son of a woman who died in Stepanakert
On September 19, 2023, as a result of the one-day war unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh, 120,000 Artsakh residents were forcibly displaced. Only about two dozen Armenians remained in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the APA agency, on October 20, one of the...
“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.
“They tried to break my son’s spirit in positions, but they couldn’t, so they shot him:” What Aghasi Dallakyan’s mother says
"I opened Facebook and the first thing I saw was my son's picture with the text “The soldier who died today in the Meghri military unit is Aghasi Serozh Dallakyan...": this is how Gohar Hayrapetyan learned about the death of her soldier son. On October 13, the...
“They call for gatherings, but they make you sign a contract to go up to positions:” Participant of the 25-day gatherings
Eduard Hayrumyan, who participated in the 25-day training gatherings organized by the Ministry of Defense, presented details of the process to Forrights.am. According to his observation, the training gatherings are organized not to increase the level of preparedness...
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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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...
“Until the end, we were waiting for help to arrive from Armenia.” Reserve officer
Reserve officer Garnik Mnatsakanyan, 50, was born in the village of Shosh, Askeran region of NK. He graduated from the local school in the early stages of the Artsakh movement and immediately joined the struggle for survival. In the 1990s, as part of the Shosh village...
The people of Artsakh were displaced as a community, and they must protect their rights as a community
On November 30, Artsakh organizations convened a rally against the sharp reduction of the financial assistance program for the people of Artsakh. Let us recall that from April 2025, only minors, the disabled and people of retirement age will receive this assistance,...
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...
Captive in Baku calls relatives: “He doesn’t talk much, he says, ‘Send me a warm hat; it’s cold here’”
Matad Babayan, who is in Azerbaijani captivity, called his family from Baku on October 30. “He calls once a week or once a fortnight. There are times when we wait longer for him to call,” Babayan’s grandson, Alen, told Forrights.am. According to family members, Madat...
“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...
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...
“Until the end, we were waiting for help to arrive from Armenia.” Reserve officer
Reserve officer Garnik Mnatsakanyan, 50, was born in the village of Shosh, Askeran region of NK. He graduated from the local school in the early stages of the Artsakh movement and immediately joined the struggle for survival. In the 1990s, as part of the Shosh village...
The people of Artsakh were displaced as a community, and they must protect their rights as a community
On November 30, Artsakh organizations convened a rally against the sharp reduction of the financial assistance program for the people of Artsakh. Let us recall that from April 2025, only minors, the disabled and people of retirement age will receive this assistance,...
She left the bread being baked in the oven and went out: the sounds of machine gun fire had become very loud, the Turks were close
Nune Kocharyan was born, lived and worked in Stepanakert. She was the head of the service department of the Hovh. Tumanyan Children's Library. Her husband, Ashot Tsatryan, is a native of Shushi, a twice displaced person. During the Artsakh Movement, she moved and...
“The alternative will be to sleeping on the street.”:The government reduces the amount and scope of support provided to Artsakh people
Forcibly displaced Artsakh residents are concerned with the recent decision of the RA government, which makes changes to the programs for supporting their housing and utility payments. On November 21, the Armenian government decided that the amount provided from April...
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