More Visitations: Suicide of 19 Year-old Suzy Kocharyan Hasn=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=t Taught Armenia=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s Prison System a Vital Lesson

14:34, May 1, 2015

By Mher Yenokyan

(For the past year Mher Yenokyan, who has served 19 years of a life sentence, has been writing a weekly article for Hetq from his cell at the Nubarashen Penitentiary)

It's been a little over a year since 19 year-old Suzy, the daughter of my prison mate Soghomon Kocharyan, took her own life

It was a desperate act of a daughter distraught over her father's plight.

Now, as back then, I still believe that if the two had the chance to see each other more often Suzy wouldn't have chosen to end her life so tragically. Soghomon believes this as well. When they take me out to the yard for exercise, I sometimes bump into Soghomon and talk to him for a few minutes. It's during these brief encounters that Soghomon has told me so.  Read more... (1033 words)

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