ArmInfo. Public confidence was violated by the results of the parliamentary elections of 2017, which, according to reliable information, was realized through the purchase of votes, pressure on employees of state bodies and private enterprises. This is stated in the annual report of the US State Department on the protection of the rights of citizens.
"Torture is one of the most important problems in the field of human rights protection in Armenia. To eliminate the difficult and dangerous conditions for living in prisons, the inability to ensure a fair trial, violent actions against journalists, obstacles to the work of the media, the use of state legal powers to punish critics, physical interference by the security forces of freedom of assembly, restriction of political participation, systemic corruption in government, inability to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people from violence. The government made minimal efforts to prevent child labor," the report noted.
In addition, the statement reads that during the protests in March 2008, the perpetrators of the deaths of 10 people and in July 2015 and 2016 in the beating of journalists and citizens, responsible officials were not brought to responsibility.