Penitentiary System
Within its activities, the Organization has implemented a number of initiatives to ensure human rights protection in penitentiary system.
In 2015, the Organization conducted an assessment on the budgeting and financial expenses of the penitentiary institutions with the emphasis on the right to decent accommodation of a human.
In 2013, a research directed towards the effectiveness raising of the rights of detained women in Armenia was conducted by the Organization, during which the living conditions for women in “Abovyan” penitentiary institutions, the legal and practice grounds for alternative punishment application against the women were studied.
Since 2013, the Organization has been a member of the Public Oversight Group Conducting Oversights in the Penitentiary Institutions under the RA Ministry of Justice. Based on the calls made in regard to the violations of detainees’ rights, the organization members has made many visits to the penitentiary institutions.
The Organization has participated in the elaboration process of the researches on “Methadone substitution treatment. Characteristics in the Penitentiary Institutions under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia” and “Peculiarities of Early Conditional Release System in the Republic of Armenia” respectively. The Organization has constantly submitted its opinions on different legal initiatives and draft laws.
Hasmik Harutyunyan, the President of the Group of Public Monitors Implementing Supervision over the Penitentiary Institutions and Bodies of the Ministry of Justice of RA, emphasized the following questions during the interview to Liberty radio station. “Whether the health condition of a prisoner was enough to keep the latter in the penitentiary institution. The most […]
It was confirmed by the European Court of Human Rights, that the danger is not a permanent characteristics for the person who committed a crime. That is why, while discussing the issue of danger of a person, it should be checked whether the factor of danger during the committing of the crime is continuous or […]
The representatives of the Public Oversight Group Conducting Oversight over the Penitentiary Institutions and Bodies under the RA Ministry of Justice had a meeting with the RA Minister of Justice Artak Zeynalyan on August 29 of 2018. Hasmik Harutyunyan, the President of the Public Oversight Group, group members Hayk Tadevosyan, Robert Revazyan, Ara Gharagyozyan, Nare […]
On August 2 of 2018, a public discussion on “Armenia’s Third Periodic Report on the Implementation of the Provisions of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry. Representative from the respective ministries and civil society organizations participated in the meeting. During the […]
After the velvet revolution the ministry of justice sticks to the same position and keeps hindering the group’s activity the same way”, stated Nare Hovhannisyan, member of the public monitoring group in conducting public control in RA ministry of justice at 2018 July 25 Media Center discussion. Nare Hovhannisyan, member of the public monitoring group of […]
During the sitting of the Public Oversight Group Conducting Oversight in the RA Penitentiary Institutions under the RA Ministry of Justice, the election of a new president of the Group was held. Hasmik Harutyunyan, the legal expert of the Protection of Rights without Borders NGO was elected as the president of the Public Monitoring Group. […]
A workshop for the monitoring groups conducting oversight over penitentiary institutions was held in Georgia within the period of June 14-15 of 2018. The two-day meeting discussions particularly targeted the issues regarding the criminal subcultures and non-official hierarchic problems of the prisoners in Armenia and Georgian prisons, the causes for their promotion and their solution […]
Armenia’s constitution provides for a republic with an elected head of state and a unicameral legislature, the National Assembly, US State Department reported. According to a constitutional referendum conducted in 2015, the country is on track to transition to a parliamentary republic by the end of the existing presidential term in 2018. The Republican Party of […]
The annual surveys on the “prison inhabitation” of the Council of Europe member states published in Strasbourg contain serious numbers in regard to the mortality cases of prisoners in Armenian penitentiary institutions. Since 2010, each year, among the Council of Europe member states, the highest indexes of the mortality cases in the prisons have been […]
The Public Group Conducting Monitoring in Penitentiary Institutions under the RA Ministry of Justice expresses its deep concerns over the release of “On the Traces of Justice” of “Good Evening” TV Program, which was recorded in Abovyan penitentiary institutions and was broadcasted in Public Channel of Armenia. The arrested women shot in the video, who […]
