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Nubarashen Inmate Dead of Reported Suicide
“His cellmates and later doctors rushed to save his life, but to no avail,” the official said. Investigation is currently underway to determine the details of the incident...Read More »
Ethics Committee Will Not Take Disciplinary Action Against Republican MP
Speaking to reporters Monday, however, Ethics Committee head Khosrov Harutyunyan, a fellow republican, said the application against Petrosyan would not even be considered because of lack of grounds....Read More »
Gaspari Removed from Court for ‘Disruptive Behavior’
After several fruitless attempts at making Gaspari “behave properly,” judge Baghdasaryan had court bailiffs take the activist by his limbs and take him out of the courtroom. The hearing was soon adjourned...Read More »
Vanadzor Man Sentenced to 3,4 Years in Jail for Attempted Chicken Heist
The court, presided over by judge Narine Hovhanisyan, ruled that Petrosyan's publicly dangerous act had to be punished by incarceration, seeing that there were no basis for a suspended sentence...Read More »
Father of Five Found Dead of Apparent Suicide in Gyumri
The man, who was found hanged in a barn in a nearby village, had just returned home from Russia after a fruitless attempt to find a job abroad, the organization reported...Read More »
‘Reduced to Prison Dust’; Gaspari Quotes Leyla Yunus Upon Release (Updated)
The court issued the ruling to change the measure of restraint for Gaspari behind closed doors, and his lawyers have yet to receive the official release decision. However, Yegoryan said, Gaspari is...Read More »
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...Read More »
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...Read More »
‘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...Read More »
Citizens Hold Solidarity Action, Condemn Violence Against Armenian Political Prisoner (Video)
A number of Armenian citizens gathered Wednesday evening outside the presidential palace in Yerevan to express their solidarity with civic activist, political prisoner Vardges Gaspari....Read More »