Researches of both local and international organizations reveal continuous inhuman attitude and torture cases in Armenia, chairman of Armenian Helsinki Committee NGO Avetik Ishkhanyan said at the conference dedicated to the 10th anniversary of activity of the Human Rights Defender in the Torture Prevention Sphere launched in Yerevan today.
“The situation is rather worrying in police. The cases of bad attitude, tortures are being revealed there after the cases have tragic end or the victims are activists who voice about it,” Ishkhanyan said.
The advocate said usually no criminal cases are being launched or they are being filed and immediately suspended.
Ishkhanyan said the situation changed after 2001 when Armenia became member of the Council of Europe. “But I would like to note with regret that no serious changes have taken place even after it,” Ishkhanyan said.