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Sanitek Employee Has Leg Amputated after Being Hit by Car While on Duty
“I like cleaning up the like it is my own house,” one of them claims and adds. “My heart is the people and my job is the care about them...Read More »
Six People Killed in Workplace Accidents in Armenia Last Year
Some of the people injured in workplace-related accidents have become unable to work; 3 of them have acquired various degrees of disability. Employers have paid a total ...Read More »
Jailed Armenian Oppositionist Diagnosed with Bone Spurs (Updated)
This could only mean that Gevorg might be suffering from health problems which are incompatible with detention, and the prison administration therefore does not...Read More »
Armenia Needs to Implement Sex Education Curriculum in Schools: Study
The majority of the parents expressed the conviction that premarital sexual relations are only acceptable for boys and therefore they have to be more informed on the subject...Read More »
Hunger-Striking Yerevan Prisoner Transferred to Infirmary
In an earlier conversation with Epress.am, Boyajyan's wife had said her husband was suffering from serious health problems, including type 2 diabetes, and expressed her concern that ...Read More »
Amulsar Gold Mine Exploiter Denies Health Insurance to Residents of Nearby Village
When asked by an Epress.am reporter why Lydian refuses to discuss the technical issues with Armenian specialists who have concerns about the mine exploitation...Read More »
Death of Ill Armenian Prisoner No Accident, Human Rights Advocate Says
Gevorgyan's last hunger strike, which he carried out with his mouth sewn, lasted 57 days; in addition to proper medical care, the prisoner was also demanding that a toilet be installed in ...Read More »
Seriously Ill Armenian Prisoner Dies After Months of Suffering
According to the indictment, Hrachya Gevorgyan and Garik Harutyunyan held hostage Hrachya Gevorgyan's wife, Naira Harutyunyan, and her son, a minor, asking for ransom from ...Read More »
Third Sanitek Employee Hit by Car in Two Weeks
Sanitek does nothing to protect the workers' safety. This is not the first such incident to happen in Sanitek; not a single day passed without someone getting into some kind of trouble․․․Read More »
Court Refuses Bail to Ill Member of Yerevan Armed Group
Two months later, in February, Aram Hakobyan's condition suffered a severe deterioration and the prisoner was taken to hospital with symptoms of a brain stroke, including uncontrollable...Read More »