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The appeals were rejected on Gevorg Kotsinyan’s case
On March 29 the RA Court of Appeal (chief judge Sergey Chichoyan) rejected all the appeals on case of Gevorg Kotsinyan who died of being battered by his four co-servicemen. The court upheld the decision made by the...
Doctors did not approve the “diagnose” of the police
Yervand Karapetyan, who was brought to Nork-Marash regional police station and then to Psychiatric hospital of Nork, was released at around 6:00 pm. The police applied to Psychiatric hospital with a letter to accept...
Who seems crazy: the peaceful activist, the one who alarmed, or..?
Today at 1:50pm the activist Yervand Karapetyan was summoned to Nork-Marash police station from in front of the Public Television. He was carrying out an action of protest against the anti-democratic activities of the...
Ombudsmen: "In many cases a person has been unreasonably “invited” to a police department".
Karen Andreasyan, Human Rights Defender, assesses the RA Police activities in 2011: “In some cases, investigation and preliminary investigation bodies subjected people to cruel, inhuman, as well as humiliating treatment...
The court listened to the commander of battalion
On March 27 in the Court of First Instance of Tavush marz the trial on death case of serviceman, Lieutenant Artak Nazaryan continued. The judge Samvel Mardanyan asking about data of journalist or media video taking the...
Human Rights Defender also addressed the activities of Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in 2011
Karen Andreasyan, Human Rights Defender, assesses the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs activities in 2011: “The Ministry has not raised the problems of trade union development, and appropriate measures have not...
National Commission on Television and Radio did not ensured the rights of Armenian taxpayers
“In case of various infringement of the law in television broadcasting, including lack of pluralism, violations of advertising law, not fulfilling the requirements of the legislation on Armenian Language and ignoring...
The military commissariats failed to organize detailed medical examination. Karen Andreasyan
“500 servicemen were recognized as unfit for military service and were early discharged. Such a number of early discharged servicemen testifies to the fact that military commissariats were unsuccessful in efficient...
Human Rights Defender assesses the activities of Ministry of Justice in 2011
Karen Andreasyan, Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia, assesses the activities of the RA Ministry of Justice in 2011 highlighting  the gaps and positive developments.  Shortcomings and problems identified...
Disabled people can work and make a public benefit
“It is high time we left aside the psychology of feeding the disabled with pension or benefit. If disabled people are able to work, they shall work”, mentioned Arthur Grigoryan, RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs...