by Հասմիկ Համբարձումյան | Jan 9, 2024 | Editor's Choice, News
The fate of civil and criminal cases in the proceedings of the Artsakh law enforcement bodies, as well as the courts, is unknown due to the forced displacement of the entire Artsakh population, and the defendants involved in them have been acquitted of charges. Davit...
by Հասմիկ Համբարձումյան | Aug 9, 2023 | Closed Institutions, Editor's Choice
The non-governmental organization Journalists for Human Rights receives numerous alerts about the torture of prisoners in the penitentiary institutions of Armenia. They are related to torturing, humiliating people, especially people with health problems, not providing...
by Հասմիկ Համբարձումյան | Aug 8, 2023 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice, News
42-year-old Lali Aydoeva, a Yezidi by nationality, lost her only son, Davit, and earlier, her husband, in the 44-day war. The young woman now lives alone in a rented apartment in Yerevan. “I’m suffocating, I go back and forth in the house, I kiss and hug...
by Հասմիկ Համբարձումյան | Jul 14, 2023 | 44-Day War, Army, Editor's Choice
“He is an extremely friendly, extremely modest, smart and reaching boy”, – this is how his first teacher, Astghik Arakelyan, remembers Shavo Samsonian, a student of Jrvezh school, and immediately adds: “For me, he is always present.” Mrs....
by Հասմիկ Համբարձումյան | Jul 6, 2023 | Editor's Choice, News, Torture
54-year-old Andranik Sargsyan, who has spinal tuberculosis and weakness of the lower limbs due to it, was interrogated while unconscious state and tortured in Vagharshapat investigative department. As a result of tortures, on the basis of a petition drawn up by...