Epress.am News from Armenia
‘Try to Picture 15 Men Sleeping and Co-Existing on a Few Square Meters’
Let’s just not forget that people are divided into two groups: those who are in captivity, and those who have managed to avoid it...Read More »
Yerevan Prisoner Ends Hunger Strike
Papyan has been serving a nine-year prison sentence for murder since 2012 and was recently charged with bribing Armavir prison chief Gevorg Mkrtchyan in order to receive special...Read More »
Juvenile Convicts in Armenia Deprived of Their Right to Education
There is a law on general education, which says that a 12-year education in Armenia is compulsory and free. We appealed to the [Justice Ministry’s Penitentiary Department] and received a response ...Read More »
Hunger-Striking Yerevan Prisoner Suffers Sharp Health Deterioration
The case is currently pending in court; in the meantime, Papyan has been sent to continue serving his sentence in Nubarashen...Read More »
Charges Against Sefilyan Based on Unsubstantiated Allegations, Lawyer Insists
In the above-mentioned interview, Sefilyan, who was the commander of the Shushi special military battalion during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, talked about Republican ...Read More »
Sasna Tsrer Members Needs Treatment in Civilian Hospital After Hunger Strike, Lawyer Says
- The doctors at the penitentiary give no noteworthy assessments of his health state. In addition, the Convicts’ Hospital does not have the technical equipment to identify a ...Read More »
Company Repairs Nubarashen Broken Sewer Line As ‘Gesture of Goodwill’
Murad Sargsyan, the press spokesperson for Veolia Jur, the company that carried out the repair works, told Epress.am that their workers repaired a broken sewer line and replaced a worn-out pipe...Read More »
Trials Over Political Oppositionists in Armenia ‘Reminiscent of Stalinist Repressions’
Head of the Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office Artur Sakunts expressed the opinion that the term “selective justice” should from now on be replaced with the term “target justice.”Read More »
Armenian Political Prisoner Calls for Participation in ‘Agreed-Upon War’
- Aliyev is in a rush, because international, regional and internal developments are becoming increasingly more unfavorable and dangerous for him and his regime...Read More »
‘Only 17’ Inmates Died in Armenian Prisons in 2017, Penitentiary Department Representative Says
What’s more, he continued, the authorities do not take any serious measures to eliminate hierarchical relations among inmates; “Prison officials even say that this system is good for keeping...Read More »