November, 2016

• 25 November

  

  Women’s Rights Activists Blame Police Indifference for Domestic Violence Victims’ Deaths

  The WRC regional hotline, meanwhile, received 2125 calls, including 1816 domestic violence-related ones. This, Yeghiazaryan told reporters, also shows that domestic abuse rates have grown over the country in the last year...
• 24 November

  

  Parents of Dead Armenian Soldiers Do Not Trust Government’s Military Compensation Plan

  The parents, who had gathered outside the government offices on Thursday morning, expressed skepticism over the plan, insisting that the citizens' contribution would hardly serve their actual purpose. “Look what's happening ...
• 24 November

  

  Oppositionist Accused of Assaulting Police Officer Was Trying to Break Up Fight, Witness Says

  After the incident, the witness went on, he was taken to the hospital where he saw the supposed victim, Gegham Khachatryan, without any injury to his face. “I went up to him and told him that his colleagues had beaten...
• 24 November

  

  Yerevan Convict’s Previous Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease Inaccurate, Officials Claim

  “Currently I'm trying to obtain all the documents regarding Gevorgyan's health in order to understand how ministry officials arrived at such a conclusion. How do you misdiagnose someone with Parkinson's disease?” the lawyer said...
• 23 November

  

  Sacked Vardenis Locksmith Promises to Nail His Feet to Bench if Not Reinstated

  I took the PM's letter to company director Anatoly Gogotin yesterday, but he said it meant nothing to him. They did not take Karapetyan's letter into consideration and again refused to reinstate me. I don't know what else to do...
• 23 November

  

  Families Blame Armenian Soldiers’ Deaths in April on Weapons Shortage and Malfunctioning Equipment

  The human rights organization has published a report on its findings, stressing that most of the soldiers' families linked the deaths with a shortage of ammunition ...
• 22 November

  

  Police Ill-Treatment of Detained Persons Still a Problem in Armenia, CPT Report Says

  “Concerning safeguards, the delegation noted that none of the civil psychiatric patients at the Gyumri Centre and just two at Nubarashen Hospital, accommodating over 300 patients, were the subject of involuntary hospitalisation ...
• 21 November

  

  Yerevan Prisoners End Hunger Strike

  On November 17th, Epress.am had turned to the group of public monitors supervising Armenia's penitentiary institutions to find out whether the hunger-strikers were being treated properly and had received a reply that the monitors...
• 21 November

  

  Tenants of Dilapidated and Unsafe Buildings in Armenian Village Still Waiting for New Apartments

  Residents of the third emergency building in Lenughi were given money from the 2015 regional budget – 6,6 million drams (about $13 700) per family, villager Gayane Poghosyan said; “The governor said then that the allocations would...
• 21 November

  

  ‘Army Is the Horror of the Nation;’ Graffiti in Yerevan Against Military Benefits Tax

  We could talk at length about how disastrous war is; but people in both Armenia and Azerbaijan already know that. Rightless and oppressed people are closely acquainted with war, and we could hardly find anyone who would say they “want war...