A man who has spent 22 years behind bars in Armenia says his case for early release was postponed for no reason, despite the fact that the law grants lifers conditional release after serving 20 years of their sentence. The following is his written appeal to Hetq.
Armenia’s Ministry of Finance reports that officials at the Bagratashen customs checkpoint found 4.5 kilos of medicine, 21.5 kilos of bio-materials, and 65 packaged cell phones in the natural gas cylinder of a car being driven by a citizen of Armenia.
The National Rebirth political party in Artsakh has publicly voiced its concerns regarding the country’s low level of relations with neighboring Iran.