Point of View

• Human Rights Defenders record that the rights of the servicemen are not protected

  

  23.12.2011

  According to the calculations of the NGOs the number of incidents happening in the Armenian Army in peaceful conditions have decreased in 2011. If in 2010 the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly Vanadzor office calculated 44 cases, this year this number decreased to 38, however, this is not a progress.

  
  

• 2011 Report on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

  

  14.12.2011

  On the 14th of December the Chairman of the Board of “Civil Society Institute” NGO and FIDH Secretary General Artak Kirakosyan together with CSI NGO president Arman Danielyan presented the 2011 Report on the Protection of the Human Rights Defenders around the world.

  
  

• December 10: the most urgent issue in the sphere of human rights is the problem of fair trial

  

  10.12.2011

  December 10 is the International Day for Human Rights Protection. In Armenia the office of Human Rights Defender organized "Human Rights EXPO" for the first time. There were corners at Sports and Concert Complex with various spheres of human rights and the achievements and failures were presented there.

  
  

• The Commander was deprived of the disability pension (video)

  

  07.12.2011

  The participant of Karabakh war, one of the commanders of Aramo brigade Arayik Melkumyan got a concussion as a result of the war. After the war he has insomnia, headache and war scenes rolling in his mind, which he relieves with the help of smoking. Now he feels bad even from smoking, since now his two daughters buy tobacco for him.

  
  

• The Corruption rates have not declined in Armenia

  

  01.12.2011

  The corruption rates in Armenia have neither increased nor declined as compared with the last year: this was stated by the executive director of TI Anticorruption Center Varujan Hoktanyan.

  
  

• No fingerprints were discovered on the instrument which served for suicide

  

  29.11.2011

  The parents of 19 years old Tigran Hambardzumyan are waiting for the results of the second forensic expertise. 5 months have passed after Tigran's body was found in the forest near the military unit of Karmrakar, Kapan on the 29th of June, 2011.

  
  

• Human Rights NGOs against illegal actions of Prosecutor General's office

  

  18.11.2011

  Three human rights NGOs are going to submit a report on illegally detaining citizen Sargis Poghosyan at the "Nubarashen" penitentiary for already a month. Lawyer Edmon Marukyan the representative of "Civil Society Institute", "Helsinki Committee of Armenia" and "Helsinki Citizen Assembly of Vanadzor Office" NGOs informed www.hra.am about this.

  
  

• Court trials are cancelled: young men have been detained for already 2 years

  

  17.11.2011

  Stepan Hovakimyan and Vahram Qerobyan have been detained for already two years, since the court system of Republic of Armenia is unable to reveal whether these young men are guilty in the robbery of "Moscow" cinema house or not.

  
  

• Constitutional Court commented on article 1087.1

  

  15.11.2011

  RA Constitutional Court today made a decision according to which article 1087.1 of Civil Code (points of defamation and insult) corresponds to the Constitution, however, "there is a collision between freedom of media and human's dignity".

  
  

• 300 Orphanage Graduates Remain Homeless (video)

  

  11.11.2011

  The number of graduates of orphanages has reached 300: the problem of providing them with residential accommodation is not yet solved. There are graduates of previous years, who got houses, but do not live in them since these places are not in good state. The state allocated houses either in damp basements, or on the top floors of the buildings, where the rain penetrates into houses.