Demand from minister
Statement by the group of public observers in charge of public control at penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice
"On 9 July 2011, the group of public observers in charge of public control at penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice presented an urgent report to the RA Minister of Justice regarding five prisoners with heavy illnesses that impede their imprisonment, including Leyli Chopinyan Ruzanna Manukyan, Amalya Mnatsakanyan from "Abovyan" Penitentiary, Armen Takvoryan from "Prisoners' Hospital" Penitentiary and Hovhannes Dokholyan with the request for release.
The medical health commission has confirmed those prisoners' medical diagnoses, but the procedure of the inter-departmental commission is not specified, and that is why the patients' release is being postponed for an uncertain period.
To this day, the RA Ministry of Justice has not responded to the group. For that reason, according to Point 13 of the Order for implementing public control at penitentiaries of the RA Ministry of Justice, the group is releasing an urgent report, demanding that the RA Minister of Justice immediately solve the issue of releaseing the prisoners since we view their further imprisonment as inhumane."
