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11:11, May 6, 2015

Garnik Arakelyan, a 60 year-old veteran of the Artsakh War, has been serving a prison sentence ever since being found guilty of premeditated murder in 2010.

Arakelyan has always claimed that he acted in self-defense when some men, brandishing knives, attacked him and his family in the yard of their home.

Yesterday Arakelyan told Hetq that last month he was transferred to what's called the 'open' administration of the Vardashen Correctional Facility. This would permit him to leave for work on the outside every day, with the proviso that he returns to Vardashen at night.

But, Arakelyan says he hasn't been able to find a job that would allow him to go and come.  Read more... (472 words)

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