Staffers of Armenia’s Human Rights Defender’s Office paid an unannounced visit to the Nubarashen Penitentiary to monitor the conditions in which inmates Vardan Geravetyan, Tigran Manoukyan and Vardges Gevorgyan - all on hunger strike – are being kept.
Free school textbooks will be distributed to students attending schools in many border communities throughout the provinces of Tavoush, Gegharkouniq, Vayots Dzor and Ararat this September.
There will be crafts’ and regional cuisine cooking lessons on the grounds of the monastery, in addition to bible readings and church services.