by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 5, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
The Ghazaryan family was one of the first families to leave Yerevan for Artsakh immediately after the end of the 44-day war in search of their son, who had been missing since October 11. The body of 20 years old Eduard Ghazaryan was received and buried more than three...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Apr 5, 2021 | Freedom of Speech
The European Court of Human Rights has sent inquiries to the Armenian government in regard the case of journalist Ani Gevorgyan, which former Yerevan Police Chief Artak Poghosyan is going through. It should be reminded that on February 12, 2014, while covering the...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 22, 2021 | Torture
On March 1, an extraordinary case of violence took place in the Tumanyan department of the Lori Regional Police Department. The head of the department, police colonel Artak Gyurjanyan, beat the detained citizen, Hrayr Lukyanchikov, a resident of Alaverdi. It was...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 22, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice
When Poghos Baghdasaryan from the village of Katnaghbyur in the Talin region turned 18, decided to go to the army not for two, but for three whole years, under the “I am” program of the RA Ministry of Defense. Three months before his demobilization, he was...
by Journalists for Human Rights | Mar 18, 2021 | Army, Editor's Choice, News
Seda Manukyan, a resident of Gyumri, tells Forrights that her son is serving in the Jabrail military unit, which was bombed by Azerbaijan, that soldiers were under siege and fled in panic. His son, Misha Yerkanyan, a conscript, was left alone in the forest for two...