Human Rights Defender: Rights Of Life Prisoners In Armenia Prejudiced Seriously
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Friday, July 13, 20:22
The rights of the life prisoners in Armenia are prejudiced seriously
and nobody can discuss the problem of their free pardon or cutting
the imprisonment term, a member of the civil initiative dealing
with cases of the life prisoners, Zarui Muradyan, said at today’s
press-conference.
“The Armenian society is tuned against the life prisoners very much
negatively and thinks they are dangerous. However, there are many
political prisoners among them and drivers which did not even know
where they were taking prisoners to”, – she said and added that the
initiative group sent several letters to President Serzh Sargsyan
to revise problems of life prisoners, change the term of their
imprisonment if they were already for 15 years in prison, etc, but
the president ignored their request.
She said that many life prisoners have already understood their
mistakes. However, the state deprived them of an opportunity to come
back and integrate in the society.
To note, as of July 2012, there are 105 life prisoners in Armenia,
41 of which sentenced for murder of one person and the rest – of two
and more.
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