We are receiving reports that some political prisoners arrested in the post-election period (for example, Aregnaz Manukyan, Avetik Chalabyan) are being deprived of the opportunity to communicate with their minor children. This was stated by the “Initiative of Five Human Rights Defenders.”
“We strongly condemn the imposition of such a ban. Regardless of the actual circumstances of the proceedings, it has no legal justification and cannot have any, and in itself turns detention from a preventive measure into a punitive one,” the statement says.
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