by Journalists for Human Rights | Jun 6, 2020 | Closed Institutions
On June 29, 2019, when the RA Law on Amendments and Addenda to the Penitentiary Code of the Republic of Armenia entered into force, 43 life sentenced prisoners submitted a petition to the Distribution Commission with a request to change their punishment regime. Based...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jun 2, 2020 | Army, News
The Investigative Committee responded to the recent publication of Forrights.am in the case of Private Volodya Galoyan. Committee spokeswoman Rima Yeganyan told us the following. “The Chairman of the RA Investigative Committee instructed the Control Department of the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | May 18, 2020 | Closed Institutions, News
Arman and Vagharshak Khostikyan, who have been on hunger strike for 24 days, stopped their hunger strike five days ago when they received information that the case they had filed had been sent to the Avan Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan. The long-awaited...
by Journalists for Human Rights | May 17, 2020 | News
Derenik Papyan on the left, Arthur Mkrtumyan on the right Months ago, the aggrieved party in the case contacted Forrights regarding the article titled “I have no reason to remain silent, it’s just these people do not care at all: they will not pay attention until one...
by Journalists for Human Rights | May 14, 2020 | News
The government on Thursday extended a state of emergency in Armenia by another month while lifting the last remaining restrictions on business activity which were aimed at containing the coronavirus epidemic. The state of emergency was declared on March 16. A few days...