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Statement of DOXA Editorial Board on the Arrest of Its Four Journalists
- The pressure the Russian journalist community has faced recently is unprecedented, but we won’t stop our work...Read More »
Tsarukyan Aids, Former “Prosperous Armenia” MPs Arrested over Election Rigging Case
The National Security Service's (NSS) 2-month arrest warrant for Vanik Asatryan, a former MP of the "Tsarukyan" fraction has been approved by the court. Asatryan is charged for bribing voters․․․Read More »
Prisons Critically Lack Psychological Resources to Work with Self-Mutilating Prisoners: Report
On average, each psychologist is supposed to work with 150 prisoners which is impossible practically and also unethical professionally. Documentation also takes much of...Read More »
58 Prisoners Released in the Time of State of Emergency
A similar statement was released by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.․․Read More »
Conscript Arrested Over Charges for Killing his Fellow on NK Frontline
Within one day, the Investigative Committee of Armenia reported two different criminal accounts based on which investigation was underway: first, "negligibly driving someone to suicide", then "violation of rules of combat duty...Read More »
Relatives of Imprisoned Azerbaijanis Can Visit them in Karabakh, States Mayilyan
"Various similar steps need to be taken in order to create an environment [of confidence] and to minimize risks. In other words, it is also a fact the cease-fire order is predominantly maintained since Dushanbe...Read More »
Court Releases a Prison Officer Charged for Torture
After being transferred to "Nubarashen" prison, he allegedly got into a trouble with the prison workers who transferred him to a solitary confinement and severely beat him up with no care for his health condition.Read More »
They Were Torturing to Death Looking for Armenian Spies
Salekh Gafarov, a resigned General-Leutanant aged 39, also had two children. According to his wife Natavan, he was detained from home without any explanations. After two weeks of no news about him, she was handed over his dead body.Read More »
21-Year-Old Prisoner Found Hanged in the Prison
The Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice has issued a statement that on November 16, 2016 at around 22:50, prisoner Sargis Abelyan was found hanged from the double-deck bed...Read More »
Conscript with Illness Discharged Early with More Severe Health Complications
Armen Tadevosyan, drafted to the army with health issues who, with the help of Vanadzor Helsinki Assembly underwent two surgeries during his military service, was discharged from the army before his term.Read More »