NUMBER OF LIFE-TERMERS HIGH IN ARMENIA – MINISTER
Tert.am
20.01.12
One of the problems in Armenia’s judicial system is a high number of
life-termers per capita, Armenia’s Minister of Justice Hrair Tovmasyan
stated at discussions of judicial reforms in Armenia’s parliament.
With respect to the ratio to the population, the number of life-termers
is much lower in, for example, Estonia (6) and Slovakia (4).
Ninety-nine life-termers are now registered in Armenia, Tovmasyan
added.
He is well informed of Armenian life-termers’ demands. One of them
is commutation of life imprisonment to 15- to 20-year prison terms.
The latest reforms envisage improvement of prison conditions.
Life-termers are now serving their sentences in maximum security
prisons. The reforms also envisage grant of parole for life-termers.
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