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Two Villages in Aragatsotn Marz Fight Over Drinking Water
The two villages receive water from the same source, and Shgharshik residents often close the water pipes going to their neighboring village...Read More »
Military Police Torture Invalid Man for being a “Saboteur”, Mother tells Forrights.am
The Military Police staff continued to mock and be violent toward her invalid son at the department; “They pulled his shirt off, they hit him for 10 minutes with his hands tied...Read More »
Syunik Court Refuses to Transfer Dead Soldier’s Case to Armenia
-The existence of Universal Jurisdiction Court’s Stepanakert division contradicts the Armenian Judicial Code Article 24.4, which states “The Provincial Universal Jurisdiction Courts are...Read More »
Citizens Detained on November 5th Protest Charged with Administrative Offenses
Rally participants were taken into custody at the Yerevan Kentron Police Department and were charged with Administrative offenses stipulated by the Administrative Offenses Code, Article 172.2...Read More »
Lawyer Says, Armenian Citizens Serving in Karabakh is Based on Non-Existent Document
According to Shushanyan, the government cites Muradyan’s military service in NKR and the Muradyan’s case convening in Stepanakert with a non-existent document...Read More »
Guy Fawkes Night in Armenia to Raise the Issue of Political Prisoners Arrested on Same Day
Herbert Gevorgyan, Suren Sahakyan, Dvin Isanyans, Ara Petrosyan, Tigran Parsilyan, Artak Gevorgyan, Max Sargsyan and Vahakn Minasyan were all taken into custody...Read More »
Armenian Political Prisoner Released From Prison
Tigran Petrosyan, who was sentenced to one year imprisonment in the case of political prisoners Shant Harutyunyan and his friends, was released from prison today...Read More »
Discrimination in Armenia is Encouraged on a State Level: Statement
The statement presents the conviction that such attitudes toward citizens, sponsored on a state level, create an environment of impunity and fertile soil for stronger manifestations of hate crimes in the future...Read More »
Top Priority is to Improve Psychiatric Patients’ Lives; Responding to Health Minister
The objective of monitoring closed institutions is not to reveal incidents, but to assess the situation, in order to find a solution to the issue and not to open a court case...Read More »
Shant’s Revolution: Documentary on Armenian Political Prisoners
During the entire trial, Harutyunyan and his friends were announced that they were politically persecuted and that they did not accept the charges against them...Read More »