Armenian Human Rights Defender informs about excessive workload in his office

Emil Lazarian 2018
Arminfo, Armenia
Nov 3 2018
Armenian Human Rights Defender informs about excessive workload in his office

Yerevan November 3

Tatevik Shahunyan. The Office of the Human Rights Defender has never been so overloaded before. Armenian Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan stated this at a joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Financial and Legal Affairs and Protection of Human Rights and the Standing Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs of the National Assembly on November 3. He stressed that the workload is significant.

''If to compare with the situation in previous years, now there are months when there are 10 times more complaints than before.

In general, in 2016 we received 5,113 complaints, in 2017 – 6417, and for 10 months of this year, this number is already about 10,000.

In addition, visits to places of detention increased almost 3-fold, " Arman Tatoyan said.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS