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NGOs Statement Against Inhuman and Degrading Attitude Towards Detainees
Tigran Postanjyan, who has been under preliminary detention for 88 days, announced hunger strike protesting against inhuman and degrading attitude toward detainees in Nubarashen penitentiary institution (PI) of the...
Civil Society Institute Calls for Investigation in Torture Allegations
It is already more than a year that Stepan Hovakimyan and Vahram Kerobyan are under arrest. They have been charged with organizing and committing larceny at the "Moskva" cinema house on January 10, 2010 (Article 38,...
The Power of “Black List” and “Rusty Lock”
On 13 May, 2011, three days after president of Freedom of Information Center of Armenia Shushan Doydoyan had published the "Black List" of the officials who had violated the Access to Information Right, by his own...
Armenia – FIDH, Civil Society Institute and the Armenian Helsinki Committee call on the authorities to investigate and re-open Levon Gulyan's case
Paris- Yerevan, May 12, 2011 - May 12, 2011, will mark the fourth anniversary of the tragic death of Levon Gulyan, who died at the Police headquarters of Yerevan as he was testifying in a murder case. So far no one has...
A. Hovsepyan:"Any statement done in the Court by the defendant on the cases of violence or torture used against him should be investigated".
On May 11, 2011 the RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan had a meeting with the Head of the Legal and Human Rights Capacity Building Department of the Council of Europe Hanne Juncher and the Special Representative of...
Convicts Will be Treated Too
"We are planning to extend our methadone project and within the coming week we will address penitentiaries in written", says Samvel Torosyan, the RA chief psychiatrist. The methadone project (methadone is a synthetic...
May 3rd is the World Press Freedom Day
This year Armenia celebrates World Press Freedom Day not in very favorable   conditions for press. There are more than ten court cases against different media outlets. Besides, according to the recently published...
Armenian Newspapers Threatened by Libel Suits with Sky-high Damages Awards
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about all the libel actions being brought against Armenian newspapers and the disproportionate damages being demanded, which threaten their survival and create a climate that...
Human Rights Defender Started to Speak and Act (video)
The Human Rights Defender announced about his intention to hold  a forum on May 1 on the freedom of speech where he will offer a mechanism against inappropriate use of law by judges after decriminalization of articles...
Raffi Hovannisian’s Message
  A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin    The complete...