Armenian law-enforcement agencies and courts remain the principal source of serious human rights violations in the country, Ombudsman Karen Andreasian said in his annual report released over the weekend.
The report alleges 167 “systemic problems” which the human rights defender believes led to abuses suffered by thousands of Armenians at the hands of various state bodies in 2014. It says that the security apparatus and judiciary were responsible for the most serious of those abuses.
As was the case in his previous reports, Andreasian singled out widespread ill-treatment of criminal suspects in pre-trial custody. He accused state prosecutors and a law-enforcement agency subordinate to them, the Special Investigative Service (SIS), of continued failure to investigate torture allegations. He also faulted Armenian courts for routinely accepting confessions made by defendants under duress.
Armenian News
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