Behind the walls of Novorashen, Armenian citizens lose or shorten their lives - Lilit Galastian.
This is Novarashan. People are losing their lives here.
The chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights and Public Affairs, Lilit Galastian, wrote about this on her Facebook page and stated that she published this text after her next visit to the Novorashen Correctional Institution, which took place three days ago.
"The conditions of detention and the material and technical condition of this institution are so terrible that it is impossible to talk about them without losing one's mental balance.
The conditions in Navarashen were noted by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT, 2023) and the UN committees (2024), which assessed the situation as inhuman or degrading.
These conditions are unacceptable and humiliating not only for people deprived of liberty, but also for all staff serving in a penal institution.
For many years they record this inhuman image, but leave everything as it is.
All the blame and responsibility lies with the authorities. The accumulated problems are systemic and mainly value.
The state failed to guarantee its citizens' right to life, and the policy adopted against the opposition is a policy of political persecution, humiliation and neutralization through repression," she wrote.