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As of Jun. 24, there are 487 prisoners released and 172 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: 57 released, 4 sentences shortened
Erebuni: 111 released, 37 sentences shortened
Vardashen: 31 released, 8 sentence shortened
Hospital for Detainees: 27 released, 7 sentences shortened
Erevan Kentron (“Center”): 0 (there are no prisoners subject to release)
Artik: 47 released, 37 sentences shortened
Vanadzor: 17 released, 12 sentences shortened
Sevan: 63 released, 20 sentences shortened
Hrazdan: 26 released
Abovyan: 2 released, 14 sentences shortened
Goris: 13 released, 9 sentences shortened
Kosh: 93 released, 24 sentences shortened