by Journalists for Human Rights | Sep 12, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
Tigran Badalyan, a 30-year-old prisoner who has been on a hunger and water strike for 18 days, took an extreme step yesterday. In the cell, he sewed his mouth and cut the vein of his wrist. Tigran was urgently taken to a civilian hospital, put a few bandages on his...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 26, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
“This form of extrajudicial “justice”, which could beat and thrash unprotected people inside prisons, and then explanation that they are fighting against the criminal subculture, is unacceptable,” said Zhanna Aleksanyan, President of The Journalists for...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 26, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
“This is another case when they try to cover up the torture case by hiding it under a wrong application of the law,” said lawyer Ara Gharagyozyan during a press conference, referring to the Nubarashen penitentiary where Armen Aghajanyan was tortured two...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 25, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
Yesterday, the head of the Journalists for Human Rights NGO, human rights activist Zhanna Aleksanyan, alerted on her Facebook page that masked men had broken into the cell of one of the convicts in the Nubarashen penitentiary and are “killing” him....
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 20, 2020 | Army, News
Today is the third anniversary of the death of the hero of the Four-Day War, Captain Andranik Mkrtchyan․ On August 20, 2017, Mkrtchyan’s body was found in one of the military units in Meghri. “We went to the cemetery and came back. All we have left from...