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Pressure towards media intensifies during the elections: Expert
In July-September of this year situation with the freedom of speech and press was tense in Armenia. The Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression has recorded 16 cases of violation. Today President of the Committee to...
It is not mandatory to accept the «invitation» of law-enforcement bodies
The Human Rights Defender's Office receives dozens of alarms from people whose relatives were «invited» by the law-enforcement bodies to the appropriate police departments for conversation and were kept there for hours...
The innocent person spent 2,5 years in prison
On 25 September, a court decision was made on the theft at the Cinema Moscow. The court, chaired by judge Mkhitar Papoyan, found Stepan Hovhakimyan guilty and sentenced him to 3 year imprisonment. The other defendant in...
The trial is almost over: there are many questions remain
The trial on the case of theft committed from the «Moscow» cinema lasted for more than 2.5 years underwent pivotal changes in recent months. One of the defendants, Stepan Hovakimyan gave a self-incriminating testimony....
The case of the editor of «Regnum» news agency is under the trial, no charges are brought against the prosecutor
The preliminary investigation of the case on quarrel occurred between the editor of the Regnum news agency's Armenian branch Ruben Grdzelyan and the employee of the Prosecutor's Office Mesrop Manrikyan is completed. On...
Children From Gyumri Urge Environment Preservation
In one of Gyumri’s playgrounds the garbage took the unhappy smiley face till the children removed it, and with planting flowers transformed it into a happy smiley face. This was the plot of an environmental commercial,...
The work with juveniles in the Penitentiary institution
On July 4th Civil Society Institute NGO organized a workshop to present the main issues revealed during the research of the social-psychological work conducted with juveniles and of the educational process in «Abovyan»...
Parents pay for free of charge medical services
Although health care for children with disabilities is free of charge in Armenia, some of the parents in Kapan pay 5-600 thousand AMD for treatment. This data was published in the report of the World Vision Armenia...
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture will visit Armenia
UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit Armenia in 2013, said to www. hra.am member of the SPT, President of the Civil Society Institute NGO Arman Danielyan. The visit will have an advisory nature...
No one is accused in the cases of hindrance to the professional activities of journalists on May 6
In the three criminal cases instituted on the cases of hindrance to the professional activities of journalists in Gyumri on the day of Parliamentary Elections there are no suspects and no one is arrested so far, nobody...