Hetq continues its series on those who were arrested with Shant Harutyunyan last November with today’s spotlight on 24 year-old Sevak Mnatsakanyan.
“Hetq” продолжает публиковать статьи о 13 молодых людях, которые были арестованы вместе с Шантом Арутюняном 5 ноября прошлого года и уже пять месяцев неаходятся в заключении.
Khachatryan says that when she got home later that evening and turned on the news at 8pm the names of the winners were announced on a H2 TV broadcast and was flabbergasted that her name was read out as the winner in the short story category. Khachatryan says her name was also announced as the winner on the 11 pm H2 news. (She has sent Hetq video tapings)
Resident of Berd, Tavush Province, Avetik Tumanyan, like most boys his age, was drafted into the army when he turned 18. He served just one year in the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army before being sentenced to life imprisonment at the age of 19 (the Court of Appeals later changed the ruling to 15 years in prison).
15 year-old Shahen Haroutyunyan, son of jailed dissident Shant Haroutyunyan, was yesterday charged with hooliganism and ordered to appear at the Police Central Investigative Department tomorrow.
Ara Zakaryan, the lawyer who defending journalist Tigran Petrosyan, one of the fourteen political activists arrested in Yerevan on November 5 last year when they attempted to stage a protest march on the Presidential Palace, has told reporters today that the charges aginst his client have been changed from “assaulting a representative of the government” to “hooliganism”.
Armenian actor and comedian Vardan Petrosyan in court today spoke directly to the family of the two boys who were killed in the car accident on October 20, 2013, something he hasn't been able to do since being placed in pre-trial detention.
People wishing to sit in at the trial of actor/comedian Vardan Petrosyan, which got underway at the Kotayk Provincial Court today, were not allowed inside if they couldn’t produce any I.D.
Almost 10 years ago, three young men, Artur Kocharyan, Avetik Tumanyan, and Suren Zobanyan (then 19 years old), accused of the murder of fellow military conscript Artur Mesropyan, were sentenced to prison, where they have been all this time.
Karineh and her mother don’t know where they will go tonight.
Most of the protesters, headed by activist Shant Haroutyunyan, were arrested on charges that they assaulted representatives of the government.
They say it’s an unwritten law, but they can’t specify the source.
Last year in Armenia, six individuals sentenced to life imprisonment petitioned President Sargsyan for a pardon. None were granted.
A citizen of the UK, Roy Harrison was unable to purchase property when he moved to Armenia nearly 20 years ago. So he asked his co-worker and translator, Zhirayr Zabounyan, to buy property in Tzaghkadzor in his name. Despite investing over 60 million AMD and living in the house all this time, the UK national was unable to prove in court that the house belongs to him. Zabounyan effectively claimed the property after all this time.
Suzy Kocharyan (pictured, right) would've turned 19. "Without my father, mother, what am I needed for? I'm alone, I'm sad…" she wrote on her Facebook page before committing suicide on the first day of spring. Suzy's father, Soghomon (pictured, left), has been in prison for 19 years, serving a life sentence. Her mother, Stella, died 4 years ago from severe suffering and illness.
I didn’t know what to expect when I entered the court archive in Yerevan to study the criminal cases in early post-Soviet Armenia.
In 2003, at the age of 18, Hovk village resident Hayk Torosyan was conscripted into the Armenian military. He hasn’t returned home since.
While inmates in various Armenian correctional facilities continue to express their dissatisfaction over the arbitrary nature regarding the implementation of the law as to their right to early conditional release, it appears that some facilities don’t even keep records as to how many inmates under their care have been afforded such an opportunity.
27 year-old Anastasia is one of the 200 women now serving time at the Abovyan Correctional Facility in Armenia.
Razmik was the only one willing to talk to me when I visited the prison, but only if I agreed not to photograph his face.
During my digging around in the Central Court Archive, and after reviewing various military court cases, I come away with the conclusion that rank and file soldiers are meted out the maximum sentences allowed by law for serious offences while their officers are treated much less severely – walking away with one or two years at most.
Hamlet Ghazaryan, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis and held at the Hospital for Detainees, attempted to commit suicide two days ago, his relatives informed Hetq earlier today.
With the permission of his mother, Hetq speaks to Shahen, son of jailed dissident Shant Haroutyunyan. The political activist attempted to stage a “revolution” with several followers in November, 2013. Haroutyunyan was subsequently arrested and is now receiving medical care at a correctional facility awaiting trial.
This pre-trial investigation will result in a trial in which I face 4-10 years imprisonment. So what is an additional two months of detention? What is 4-10 years, if inwardly I have already sentenced myself to life? Isn't all of this a joke?
Armenia’s Chemical-Technical Scientific Research Institute has seen hard times ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Minutes ago, a police van entered Yerevan’s Liberty Square broadcasting a warning to anti-Putin demonstrators not to go ahead with their planned march through Yerevan since it was “illegal”.
11,000 people in Armenia have signed a petition calling on authorities to replace the two month pre- trial detention of Vardan Petrosyan with some type of bail arrangement.
On October 31, the attorney claims he received a response from the Center’s director, saying that a preliminary examination of Petrosyan immediately after being admitted to the hospital found no traces of alcohol.