455 Prisoners Released Under Amnesty as of Jun. 16

As of Jun. 16, there are 455 prisoners released and 54 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: 53 released, 4 sentences shortened

Erebuni: 107 released, 8 sentences shortened

Vardashen: 31 released, 1 sentence shortened

Hospital for Detainees: 26 released, 3 sentences shortened

Erevan Kentron (“Center”): 0 (there are no prisoners subject to release)

Artik: 43 released, 3 sentences shortened

Vanadzor: 17 released, 8 sentences shortened

Sevan: 52 released

Hrazdan: 23 released

Abovyan: 2 released, 12 sentences shortened

Goris: 11 released, 9 sentences shortened

Kosh: 90 released, 6 sentences shortened