February, 2016

• 25 February

  

  Gaspari’s Wife Requests Interim Measure from ECHR

  In a statement issued Thursday, February 25, Europe in Law Association says that Gaspari has been subjected to beatings, torture and other forms of ill-treatment by cellmates in Yerevan’s Nubarashen prison...
• 25 February

  

  Armenian Lawmakers Petition for Jailed Civic Activist’s Release

  Heritage faction member Aleksandr Arzumanyan said he, along with Elinar Vardanyan, has already discussed the issue with the US Ambassador in Armenia, as well as sent an appeal to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights...
• 25 February

  

  ‘I Crawled Out of the Cell and Refused to Go Back’; Gaspari Recounts Brutal Torture in Prison

  I told the management about the issue, but after a few reprimands they decided to punish me and take me to an isolation cell … we went down to the basement, and there was one self-harmed man...