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As of Jul. 22, there are 547 prisoners released and 309 prisoners whose sentences have been reduced under the general amnesty granted on occasion of the 20th anniversary of Armenia’s independence by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on May 20 then approved by parliament on May 26.
The RA Ministry of Justice’s penal institutions department listed the number of those released and those whose sentences were shortened per penitentiary as follows:
Nubarashen: 65 released, 4 sentences shortened
Erebuni: 116 released, 67 sentences shortened
Vardashen: 34 released, 22 sentences shortened
Hospital for Detainees: 30 released, 10 sentences shortened
Yerevan Kentron (“Center”): 0 (there are no prisoners subject to release)
Artik: 48 released, 40 sentences shortened
Vanadzor: 18 released, 14 sentences shortened
Sevan: 71 released, 44 sentences shortened
Hrazdan: 32 released, 7 sentences shortened
Abovyan: 7 released, 16 sentences shortened
Goris: 16 released, 9 sentences shortened
Kosh: 110 released, 76 sentences shortened