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...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Aug 10, 2018 | Freedom of Speech
Even the lawyer of Valeri Paryakov, who killed seven members of the Avetisyan family, did not receive such threats and insults as did the advocates of the Yerkrapah union leader Manvel Grigoryan, Arsen Mkrtchyan, one of Manvel Grigoryan’s lawyers assures. After...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 27, 2018 | Army
“If I went to the army, my life would be seriously threatened. As a result of physical violence, I would be deprived of life or, submitted to psychological violence and persecution, I might have committed suicide,” says homosexual A.S. to Forrights.am. The...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Jul 24, 2018 | Army
The corporal Hovhannes Melkonyan was killed in the Vardenis military unit on June 22. A black “cabin”, four walls, sloping roof — the only house the corporal has ever known, consists of a narrow, tiny room. Even the toilets of the contemporary...
